Disparates

For an artist who counted Honoré Daumier, George Grosz and Max Beckmann among his chief influences, it is unsurprising that was always a strong satirical bent to de Francia’s thought. This found its most extended and richest expression in Disparates, the series of paintings and drawings he began in 1968 and to which he would periodically add over the course of the next decade. Named after the series of prints by Goya, often translated as The Follies, these works are bitter responses to the brutality of modern politics, unmasking the hypocrisy and posturing to reveal the savage impulses that drive them.