Motivo de Feria (En la Feria)

 

Isidoro Ocampo

  1910 - 1983 (biography)

1940  

lithograph 

17 1/2 x 13" image 

pencil, lower right 

6 of 15  

dated and editioned in pencil 

Prignitz 763; illustrated on page 105 of the album, TGP Mexico 

cream wove 

published 

artist and Taller de Grafica Popular, published in the second series of 1940 

18354 

SOLD

This strange image depicts a side show at a fair or bazaar. What appears to be Satan is standing on a platform - behind him is a skeleton, a calavera. There is are two light bulbs for illumination. A crowd stands, looking at the figure. James Wechsler did an excellent biography on Ocampo in the book "Mexico and Modern Printmaking / A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950"; page 200. Wechsler states: "As Ocampo's body of work attests, this undeservedly overlooked artist was one of the most original voices in modern Mexican art."