Scarce Printed Portfolio of the Works of Posada La Revolución Mexicana vista por José Guadalupe Posada, Signed

Jaled Muyaes José Guadalupe Posada

First Edition

Muyaes, Jaled (recopilación y presentación de). La Revolución Mexicana vista por José Guadalupe Posada. México, D.F.: Talleres “Policromía”, First edition. 1960. Signed and warmly inscribed by Jaled Muyaes on the title page, Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, together with an additional 110 Roman-numeraled copies containing impressions pulled from the original plates; Folio. A landmark mid-century portfolio of José Guadalupe Posada’s Mexican Revolution imagery, issued on the fiftieth anniversary of 1910 and curated by the Chilean-born Mexican anthropologist, painter, and folk-art collector Jaled Muyaes. This portfolio gathers many of the most striking broadsides and engravings created by Posada, now celebrated as one of Mexico’s most influential political printmakers and the creator of iconic calaveras imagery that helped define visual culture around the Revolution and Día de los Muertos. Muyaes’s introductory essay situates Posada’s work in the context of Porfirian penny-press graphics and revolutionary agitation, reading the engravings as popular chronicles of battles, executions, and politicized skeletons that lampooned elites and rallied the urban poor. The plates in this example run from no. 25 through no. 62, offering 38 large-format images that include grim battlefield scenes, executions at the wall, corrido sheets, and satirical calaveras, all reproduced in strong black impressions on quality paper. As a collaboration between a key twentieth-century scholar-collector of Mexican popular art and the artist who became a posthumous symbol of revolutionary print culture, the portfolio occupies an important place in Posada’s reception history and in studies of Mexican visual memory of the Revolution.

Bibliographic descriptions of the standard issue call for a title page, several leaves of text and 62 plates printed on separate leaves, with plates 19–22 combined on a single sheet for a total of 59 plate leaves. This portfolio presently retains 38 of the original 62 plates, comprising those numbered 25–62; (plates 1–24 are not present). No slipcase. Loose sheets housed in the original printed card portfolio. Portfolio covers show light toning and rubbing along spine, no slipcase. so the suite is partially lacking though the 38 surviving prints are generally very well-preserved. Even as a partial set, it preserves more than half of the original sequence in a format far more substantial than the cheaply printed broadsides from which many of these images derive. Prints are clean with few exhibiting mild toning at edges. Overall good condition. A rare collection showcasing the iconic works of the celebrated Mexican revolutionary artist José Guadalupe Posada.

Item #22886

Price: $450.00