Here Comes the Bogey-Man (No. 3, Que viene el Coco)

Series TitleLos Caprichos

Artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746 - 1828)

Date1799

MediumEtching with aquatint and other intaglio media

DimensionsPlate: 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches (19.37 x 13.65 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (29.54 x 19.38 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1037

Edition/State/Proof1st ed.

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Exhibition History

Exhibition, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1952, no cat.

Cryptic: The Use of Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a Master Class from Goya, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, May 20-August 14, 2011, no cat.

Goya/Chagoya, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 4, 2012-February 3, 2013, no cat., as Here Comes the Bogey-Man (No.3, Que viene el Coco).

Gallery Label

Goya’s Here Comes the Bogey-Man critiques how children are taught to fear things that don’t exist. Goya blamed this “deadly abuse in early education” for the superstition he saw thriving in Spanish society. Here, two terrified children turn for protection to their mother, who greets the phantom visitor with an expression of gratitude. Similarly, in Chagoya’s print, little children cling to their mother as a hooded man stands before them with arms crossed. This is no makebelieve bogeyman, however. This is David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1999, when Chagoya made this print.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, October 25, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Tomás Harris, Goya Engravings and Lithographs (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964), 1: no. 38, pp. 96, 118, (repro.), as Que viene el Coco. (Here comes the bogey-man); 2: no. 38, p. 73, (repro.), as Que viene el Coco. (Here comes the bogey-man.).

Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya, 2^nd ed. (New York: Harrison House, 1981), no. 455, pp. 128-29, 176, (repro.), as Que viene el Coco. (Here comes the bogey-man).

Alfonso E. Pérez-Sánchez and Julián Gállego, Goya: The Complete Etchings and Lithographs (Munich: Prestel, 1995), no. 3, p. 35, (repro.), as Here comes the bogeyman.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 134, 314, as Caprices (Los Caprichos).

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