La Jaula (The Cage)

 

Alfredo Zalce

  1908 - 2003 (biography)

1985  

etching and aquatint 

11 13/16 x 8 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

P.deA 8/10 (Artist's Proof) 

pencil titled in lower center, editioned in lower left 

Mexican Fine Arts Center #43 

antique-white wove Arches 

proof 

artist 

20613 

SOLD

Zalce, like so many of his friends at the TGP, showed ordinary Mexican life, ordinary people doing ordinary things, and immortalized them. The subject of this aquatint and etching is a woman, balancing a cage full of birds on her head.