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Mexican Kitchen by Jean Charlot

Mexican Kitchen by Jean Charlot

Mexican Kitchen

Jean Charlot

Title

Mexican Kitchen

 
Artist

Jean Charlot

  1898 - 1979 (biography)
Year
1948  
Technique
color lithograph on stone 
Image Size
12 5/8 x 16 3/4" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right; signed in the stone, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered, from an edition of 20 from the first printing. 
Annotations
dated in the stone, after the signature 
Reference
Morse 518 
Paper
heavy cream wove 
State
only state (from the first printing) 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22268 
Price
SOLD
Description

This color lithograph was intended to benefit the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, whose board commissioned artists to create prints for their trustees. However, said Charlot, "...at the time they really did not like me, so they decided to refuse the print. It's a good print. I think there's something democratic about it, and the trustees were not especially democratic. You know my feeling of 'art for the people,' and this is very much it. I've used the relation of the basket and the people since in quite a number of paintings..."

"Mexican Kitchen" was printed from 3 stones in two states of 20 impressions each. The first printing was yellow ochre, maroon and blue imparting a general 'reddish tone'.

The second printing was in maroon, gray green and blue, with a general 'brown tone'. This impression is from the first printing.