Marionette Out of San Ildefonso Church by Gustave Baumann
Marionette Out of San Ildefonso Church
Gustave Baumann
Title
Marionette Out of San Ildefonso Church
Artist
Gustave Baumann
1881 - 1971 (biography)Year
1938
Technique
color woodcut, accompanied by the black block
Image Size
6 1/8 x 7 3/8" image
Signature
pencil signed, lower right
Edition Size
unnumbered
Annotations
pencil titled
Reference
Chamberlain 157
Paper
cream Beckett watermarked paper
State
published
Publisher
possibly a commission for Puppetry
Inventory ID
AB861
Price
SOLD
Description
Chamberlain quotes Baumann on page 406 of In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann: "Puppets are no novelty in the Spanish southwest. They have been used in folk performances since the first Spaniards came. This Conquistadore [sic] on his crudely-made but well-articulated horse was found in San Ildefonso pueblo, where the Indians remembered him as part of a play given in the old church a long time ago.'