Chichicastenango. Santo Tomas (a.k.a. Fiesta Santo Tomas, Chichicastenango)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1945  

color etching and aquatint 

12 1/4 x 10 7/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

16/100 (likely printed fewer than 25) 

pencil titled; red "FPC" Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet corner 

Pollak 1950 SF collection checklist no. 9 

cream similie-velin wove 

published 

artist 

22703 

$600.00 

The patron saint of Chichicastenango, Guatemala, is celebrated every December with week-long festivities that combine indigenous Mayan (K'iche) customs and Christian traditions. Depicted in this work is the facade of the Iglesia de Santo Tomas with the colorful, elaborate floats and bunting created for the event by the townspeople.