Goya

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…e for France in 1824. In Bordeaux he took up the new art of lithography, producing a series of bullfight scenes. These paintings were considered among the finest lithographs ever made. Although he returned to Madrid for a brief visit in 1826, he died in self-imposed exile in Bordeaux two years later, on April 16, 1828. Goya left no immediate family members, but his influence was strongly felt in mid-19th-century painting and printmaking and in 20th-century art.