This is an exceptional original work on heavy paper, done in the late 1990's. The detail is exquisite. It appears to have been featured in a Museo Reina Sofia show, prior to being acquired by the present owner. Acquired from an important Southern California collector, who acquired the work at auction in 2017. It measures 10.5 x 8.25" (26 x 21cm) plus framing, and was done in 1999. This work is beautifully framed.
Sources consulted: MANRIQUE, Jorge Alberto. Francisco Toledo. Mexico. Smurfit, Cartón y Papel de México, 2002, pp.13-16 and official site of the Reina Sofía Museum.
This work will be shipped within the US for a cost of $150, as it needs to be shipped flat, and insured, if shipped without the framing. Please inquire for packing and shipping costs with the framing. For worldwide shipping, it will ship at our cost of $200, and the work will be shipped flat. This work has very good provenance, and we guarantee the authenticity and will provide a COA. In addition MLA offers a lifetime trade in policy on all of our artwork.
Recognized worldwide for his work and personality, Toledo is considered one of the greatest Mexican artists of the 21st century. He was a multidisciplinary artist, cultural promoter and social fighter in favor of indigenous people and the environment. Expert in painting, drawing, sculpting and engraving, he frequently imposed his non-rational interpretation of reality.
Through Rufino Tamayo, he managed to study in Paris and sell his first works. Having experienced the artistic avant-garde, his work began to have its own style and although he came to be associated with the Generation of Breakup, he always established his autonomous character.
Among the constant themes in his work are fantastic figures, human and animal, sex, insects, the study of eschatology and entomology, as well as Oaxacan traditions and culture. His work acts and raises plastic aspects, in it he proposes textures through shading with colors that generate sensory experimentation.
In 1988 he founded the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca and in 2005 he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize from the Swedish foundation Right Livelihood Award for his work in defense of cultural heritage. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and his work is part of the collections of the Museums of Modern Art in Mexico City, Philadelphia, New York and Paris, as well as the Tate Gallery in London and the Kunstnaneshus in Oslo, among countless others.
