Marionette Out of San Ildefonso Church

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1938  

color woodcut 

6 1/8 x 7 3/8" image 

pencil signed, lower right 

unnumbered 

pencil titled 

Chamberlain 157 

cream Beckett watermarked paper 

published 

possibly a commission for Puppetry 

AB861 

$4,500.00 

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.'