This aspect of Goya, writes author Stanley Meisler, his portraits of women ... old crones, mothers, mourners, and victims of violence—with a sensitivity and realism unparalleled in his time.

Polke, “a creator who, in the face of the vicissitudes of the 20th century, defended the banner of painting,” says Moure, was fascinated by Goya's painting Old Women or The Time (1810-12 ...