El Sombreron - Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano by Alfredo Zalce

El Sombreron - Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano by Alfredo Zalce

El Sombreron - Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

Alfredo Zalce

Title

El Sombreron - Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

 
Artist

Alfredo Zalce

  1908 - 2003 (biography)
Year
1946  
Technique
color blockprints, typeset text 
Image Size
images: various; book: 12-1/4 x 9-3/4 x 1/4" 
Signature
ink signed by both the artist and author on the colophon 
Edition Size
99 of 400 numbered copies 
Annotations
ink numbered on the colophon 
Reference
Getty Library, accession number 94-B17741 
Paper
cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
La Estampa Mexicana 
Inventory ID
24117 
Price
SOLD
Description
A first edition book of three theatrical tales, El Somebreron, Martes de Carnaval, and La Cabeza Salome, as told by the Mexican poet Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, illustrated in 40 original blockprints by Alfredo Zalce. Copies of this book are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, France; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Getty Museum Library, Los Angeles, USA.