AUTHENTICITY OF GOYA’S “BLACK PAINTINGS” QUESTIONED

Juan Jose Junquera, a professor of art history at Complutense University in Madrid, is convinced that Goya’s “Black Paintings”—a series of fourteen iconic pictures now on view in the Prado—were not in fact painted by Goya. As the New York Times‘s Arthur Lubow reports, Junquera believes that the paintings are the work of Goya’s son Javier.