Marionette Out of San Ildefonso Church by Gustave Baumann

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.'