Posada Aguilar, Jose Guadalupe, [Collection of 87 interesting prints by Guadalupe Posada], [c.1890-1918]. [Mexico]. Antonio Venegas Arroyo.

Posada Aguilar, Jose Guadalupe

[Collection of 87 interesting prints by Guadalupe Posada], [c.1890-1918]. [Mexico]. Antonio Venegas Arroyo.

Extraordinary collection of Guadalupe Posada prints; strongly linked to the Mexican culture and political satire of the first part of the 20th century

A large and comprehensive sample of the oeuvre of Mexican artist and illustrator Guadalupe Posada, including large broadsides of cultural, social and religious nature, as well as chapbooks and book illustrations for children and housewives. All these prints are interesting in their subjects, dealing with literature and politics.

$ 20,000.00

Enquire

Several sizes, folio broadsides, 4to and 12mo. Occasional marginal tear to a few broadsides, inconsequential scattered foxing or spotting to some, a few with marginal staining, scattered flaws, overall in excellent condition.

This is an extraordinary and large collection of prints by Mexican artist and illustrator Guadalupe Posada, engraved mostly -if not exclusively- by Venegas Arroyo, it comprises large, medium and small broadsides, as well as chapbooks, book covers, etc.

Posada's art is an icon of the Mexican cultural landscape, it is steeped in social engagement, satirical acuteness, and wry humor presented to the reader and observer in woodcut and lithographic illustrations for periodicals and chapbooks. During the late Porfiriate and early years of the Mexican Revolution, his art enticed the buyers of popular, very cheaply produced songsters; political broadsides; cookbooks; and single-sheet accounts of hangings, disasters, crimes, and other sensational events. All these were mostly published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, a publisher who produced mostly inexpensive literature and satirical broadsides, and himself.

Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852-1913) was a prolific Mexican artist and book illustrator whose work was heavily political in contents and influential for its satirical acuteness and social engagement, both in Mexico and the rest of America. Posada satirized social life of the bourgeois, and political events during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Amongst his well-known and easily recognizable style, the Calaveras stand out, today closely associated with the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos. His successful carrier and the influence his work would have in the 20th century was however, as with many talented artists before him, no obstacle for becoming broke, he died poor and was buried in an unmarked grave during the Mexican Revolution that ousted Porfirio Diaz. After his death, his work became nothing else but one of the most recognizable symbols of Mexican culture, to date.

Artworks

Cookie preferences

Join our mailing list

Artworks

Posada Aguilar, Jose Guadalupe

Further images