Goya’s last portrait, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1989.

At a time of chaos and upheaval, Francisco Goya made his living painting portraits of the royal family and aristocracy of Spain which were often devastating in their truth. He also painted a number of self-portraits. But he left another self-portrait – and a portrait of his times – in the form of drawings and etchings which were equally, though sometimes less obviously, devastating.

John Berger and Nella Bielski have drawn on episodes from Goya’s life and the iconography of his art to make a dramatic portrait that is the antithesis of “costume drama”: responding to the theatricality and inventiveness of Goya’s work with an inventiveness of their own, they reveal a vision of Goya as a painter for our time.