Verdi (Homenaje a Verdi)

 

Leopoldo Mendez

  1902 - 1969 (biography)

1947 (published in 1948) 

woodcut 

17 1/8 x 23 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

 

Azpeitia 99; Arce 47 

Parsons Diploma Parchment, cream wove 

published 

TGP 

15729 

SOLD

A dramatic portrait of the Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi. The revolutionary images in the background probably represent his opera of the Spanish Inquisition, Don Carlos.