Mexico
1950s
Lithograph, signed presentation print
Image Height 12 1/2" Width 9 1/2"; with archival frame Height 16 3/4" Width 13 1/4"
Provenance: Private collection, San Francisco, CA
This signed lithograph by Jean Charlot shows two women resting among stacks of tortillas and round baskets, their heavy rounded forms filling the sheet in soft grey and green tones. Charlot, a French born artist central to the Mexican mural movement of the 1920s, returned throughout his career to Indigenous women and the labor of the marketplace, treating them with the monumental dignity he admired in pre Hispanic sculpture. The gentle modeling and simplified volumes here show the draftsmanship that underpinned both his murals and his prints.
The composition draws the two figures into a single sculptural mass, their lowered gazes lending the scene a quiet, meditative weight. As a signed presentation print it belongs to the graphic work Charlot pursued alongside his fresco painting and book illustration. Charlot later settled in Hawaii, and prints from this period link his enduring Mexican subjects to the collectors who followed his work there.
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Mexico
1950s
Lithograph, signed presentation print
Image Height 12 1/2" Width 9 1/2"; with archival frame Height 16 3/4" Width 13 1/4"
Provenance: Private collection, San Francisco, CA
This signed lithograph by Jean Charlot shows two women resting among stacks of tortillas and round baskets, their heavy rounded forms filling the sheet in soft grey and green tones. Charlot, a French born artist central to the Mexican mural movement of the 1920s, returned throughout his career to Indigenous women and the labor of the marketplace, treating them with the monumental dignity he admired in pre Hispanic sculpture. The gentle modeling and simplified volumes here show the draftsmanship that underpinned both his murals and his prints.
The composition draws the two figures into a single sculptural mass, their lowered gazes lending the scene a quiet, meditative weight. As a signed presentation print it belongs to the graphic work Charlot pursued alongside his fresco painting and book illustration. Charlot later settled in Hawaii, and prints from this period link his enduring Mexican subjects to the collectors who followed his work there.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
