first edition
1945 · Mexico City
by [Taller de Grafica Popular] [Angel Bracho]
Mexico City: Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945. Very Good. Mexico City: Taller de Grafica Popular, 1945. Original color lithograph. 80x59.5cm. Printed in red and black with the image of a bayonet through the eye of a grotesque Hitler face, the Nazi war machine in flames, and Allied flags above, with the Soviet Union red star front and center. Mild edgewear and toning, with a few short tears and some creasing along bottom edge; Very Good or better.
The Taller de Grafica Popular was an artists' print collective founded in Mexico City in 1937, drawing inspiration from the likes of Jose Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, using art to advance revolutionary social causes. Producing handbills, posters, and banners, the workshop became a center for radical political activity and supported anti-militarism, organized labor, and opposition to fascism.
¡Victoria!, executed by former bus driver, butcher's assistant, and Taller founding member Angel Bracho, stands as one of the highlights of the collective. The full text translates as, "Victory! The artists of the Popular Graphics Workshop have united to celebrate all of the progressive workers and men of Mexico and of the world for the glorious victory of the Red Army and of the armies of all the nations united against Nazi Germany, the most important step toward the total destruction of fascism." Three holdings found in OCLC at the University of California San Diego, the University of Notre Dame, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and with a fourth found at the Yale University Art Gallery. (Inventory #: 31273)
The Taller de Grafica Popular was an artists' print collective founded in Mexico City in 1937, drawing inspiration from the likes of Jose Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, using art to advance revolutionary social causes. Producing handbills, posters, and banners, the workshop became a center for radical political activity and supported anti-militarism, organized labor, and opposition to fascism.
¡Victoria!, executed by former bus driver, butcher's assistant, and Taller founding member Angel Bracho, stands as one of the highlights of the collective. The full text translates as, "Victory! The artists of the Popular Graphics Workshop have united to celebrate all of the progressive workers and men of Mexico and of the world for the glorious victory of the Red Army and of the armies of all the nations united against Nazi Germany, the most important step toward the total destruction of fascism." Three holdings found in OCLC at the University of California San Diego, the University of Notre Dame, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and with a fourth found at the Yale University Art Gallery. (Inventory #: 31273)
