Raul Anguiano

Mexico: EDAMEX, 1985. Second edition; "edicion trilingue". Folio in blue-green-gray DJ, white spine, 126, [18] pages, color illus (some b&w); 30 cm. Extremely gently rubbed rear corners, extremely gently bumped top corners, three light soiling marks to boards, very gentle bumping to spine head and foot, bright pages in tight binding, faint soiling to DJ, very mild rubbing to DJ corners, extremely gentle rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, else Very Good(+) in Very Good(+) DJ. Now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9684092202

In Spanish, French, and English. Raúl Anguiano (Guadalajara, 1915 – Mexico City, 2006) was a Mexican painter and printmaker of the second generation of muralists, following Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. He studied at the Escuela Libre de Pintura in Guadalajara, moved to Mexico City in 1934, and in 1937 was among the founders of the Taller de Gráfica Popular with Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O'Higgins and Alfredo Zalce. He executed some fifty murals from La educación socialista (1936) onward, and taught for many years at La Esmeralda and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His subjects were rural and indigenous Mexico, popular festivals and religious observance, and in particular the Maya, whom he recorded on the expedition to Bonampak described in Expedición a Bonampak (1959). His best-known painting, La Espina, depicts a seated Lacandon woman removing a thorn from her foot; it sold at Christie's in 2004 for $156,000. | Art, Anguiano, Raul, 1915-2006. Mexico painters.