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Label Text This print is a combination of etching and aquatint. The Blockhead depicts a giant figure dancing wildly with castanets in each hand. Two fearful-looking heads emerge from either side of the giant while to the left is a half-crouching man against whom leans a wooden-looking swooning female figure. Part of the Disparates series, executed between 1810 1nd 1819, although they were not publicly published as a series until 1864, thirty-six years after Goya's death. Number 4 of 22. Source: Bulletin, July-August 1971.
Exhibition History"European Prints from the Collection of the Des Moines Art Center," UNO Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, brochure ref. p. 4
Published ReferencesDelteil, Loys, Le Peintre Graveur illustre, IV: Francisco Goya, ii (Paris, 1922) no. 205

THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS OF GOYA, foreword by Aldous Huxley, pub. by Crown Publishers, no. 4 of "The Proverbs"~
DimensionsSheet: 12 1/2 × 17 1/8 in. (31.8 × 43.5 cm)
Image: 8 5/8 × 12 1/2 in. (21.9 × 31.8 cm)
Accession Number 1970.26
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
Catalogue raisonnéDelteil, Loys, Le Peintre Graveur illustre, IV: Francisco Goya, ii (Paris, 1922), no. 205
Portfolio/SeriesDisparates (Follies)
Bobalicón (Dancing Giant), from "Disparates (Follies)"
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Disparate de Miedo (The Folly of Fear), from "Disparates (Follies)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
ca. 1819
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Caballo Raptor (Abducting Horse), from "Los Disparates (The Follies)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
ca. 1816
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ni asi la distingue (Even Thus He Cannot Make Her Out), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Todo va revuelto (Everything is Topsy-Turvy), from "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1810-1814
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
El de la rollona (Nanny's Boy), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lo Mismo (The Same), from "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1810-1814
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Asi Sucedió (This is How it Happened), from "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Allá vá eso (There It Goes), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Siempre Sucede (It Always Happens), from "Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
printed 1863
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Modo con que los Antiquos Españoles Cazaban los Toros à Caballo en el Campo (The Way in Which the Ancient Spaniards Hunted Bulls on Horseback in the Open Country), from "La Tauromaquia (The Art of Bullfighting)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1815
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bien tirada esta (They Must Fit Tightly), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Asta su Abuelo (As Far Back as His Grandfather), from "Los Caprichos (The Caprices)"
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1799