Attributed to José Guadalupe Posada
Mexico City
1910
Relief print on paper, framed
15.5 x 20 inches including frame (39 x 51 cm)
Jean Charlot, Honolulu, Hawaii
The broadside is headed La Calavera del Tenorio de la Colonia de la Bolsa, printed in columns of Spanish verse around a central relief engraving. The image shows a skeleton figure in a broad plumed hat and gentleman's dress, cane in hand, striding among smaller calaveras and gravestones as a Don Juan Tenorio sent up in bone. Columns of type frame the picture on both sides, and the sheet shows toning, creasing, and edge wear.
José Guadalupe Posada (1852 to 1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver based in Mexico City, known for the calavera broadsides he produced for the publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. His skeleton figures, satirizing politicians and social types, became emblems of Mexican popular art and a touchstone for later muralists including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. His work is held in major collections and shaped the visual language of the Day of the Dead.
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Attributed to José Guadalupe Posada
Mexico City
1910
Relief print on paper, framed
15.5 x 20 inches including frame (39 x 51 cm)
Jean Charlot, Honolulu, Hawaii
The broadside is headed La Calavera del Tenorio de la Colonia de la Bolsa, printed in columns of Spanish verse around a central relief engraving. The image shows a skeleton figure in a broad plumed hat and gentleman's dress, cane in hand, striding among smaller calaveras and gravestones as a Don Juan Tenorio sent up in bone. Columns of type frame the picture on both sides, and the sheet shows toning, creasing, and edge wear.
José Guadalupe Posada (1852 to 1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver based in Mexico City, known for the calavera broadsides he produced for the publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. His skeleton figures, satirizing politicians and social types, became emblems of Mexican popular art and a touchstone for later muralists including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. His work is held in major collections and shaped the visual language of the Day of the Dead.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
