LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on masonite

Measurements:

35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (height) by 47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'ALFREDO ZALCE, 1952' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Exposición de arte mexicano, 1953-1954. Morelia, Michoacán, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Zalce total, July- September 1995. This exhibition also travelled to Guanajuato, Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato, October- November 1995; Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, December 1995- February 1996. Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte, De artesanos y arlequines: Forjando una colección de arte mexicano, July 2005- January 2007. Austin, Mexic-Arte Museum, From Revolution to Renaissance: Mexican Arte from the Aaron Collection, April 2007- January 2008. Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, Translating Revolution: US Artists Interpret Mexican Muralists, February- August 2010. San Antonio, Museo Alameda Smithsonian, Revolution and Renaissance: Mexico and San Antonio, 1910-2010, November 2010- August 2012.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Exposición de arte mexicano, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1953, p. 132 (illustrated). A. Reed, The Mexican Muralists, New York, Crown Publishers, 1960, p. 147 (illustrated). A. Hijar, Zalce total, Mexico City, Litográfica Turmex, 1995, p. 37 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Siglo XX: Grandes maestros mexicanos, Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, 2002, p. 277 (illustrated in color). Alfredo Zalce, Michoacán, Gobierno del Estado de Michoacán, DGE Equilibrista, 2002, p. 168-169 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Lic. José A. del Rio, Mexico City. José del Bosque A. Galería Artdicré, Mexico City. Acquired from the above.