Toledano (Lombardo Toledano)

 

William F. Wolff

  1922 - 2004 (biography)

1960  

color woodcut 

17 3/4 x 11 1/2" image 

pencil, lower right 

one of four proofs 

pencil "proof" ; "Lombardo Toledano" verso 

 

soft ivory wove 

 

artist 

WIWO102 

$550.00 

A portrait of Vicente Lombardo Toledano (1894 - 1968), considered the foremost Mexican labor leader of the 20th century. He founded the Confederacion de Trabajadores (Confederation of Mexican Workers), the publications America Latina and El Popular as well as the Workers' University, of which he remained the dean of until his death.