JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA FULL PORTFOLIO, SIGNED, VERY RARE

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JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA (Mexican, 1852-1913).
RARE COMPLETE PORTFOLIO
Jose Guadalupe Posada Aguilar [With 15 original engravings]". Original engravings/metal cuts. 1913 or earlier. Printed 1988. Some prints signed in the plate. Full margins (as issued). Fine impressions. Fine condition. Original and complete portfolio issued in December, 1988 by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago. Printed in Mexico, D.F. Edited by Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico. Interior cover signed by Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo to validate authenticity of the impressions from the original plates/blocks. Printed index listing titles and mediums included on interior cover. The prints are loose inside the brown kraft portfolio with printed cover and ribbon tie. The darker spots on the photos are shadows of me taking the pictures to post. The 15 actual images are in mint condition. Overall size: (Various): 14 x 11 in.
If there is an icon of Mexican folk art this is Jose Guadalupe Posada. Posada’s art characterized by its illustrations, caricatures and engravings, where death seems to have a very special place.
In its early years Posada, worked producing drawings, copying religious images and as assistant at a pottery workshop, to later becoming an apprentice at a lithography and etching workshop,where his passion lies.
By those years some of his satirical illustrations started appearing published, where most of its themes were in opposition to the Porfirio Díaz government.   In his etchings and lithographs Posada shows a society in crisis, marked by inequality and injustice of the Porfirian (Díaz) society and describing also the spirit of Mexican people in politics and on every day’s life.
Thanks to his work format, the community events were known by the Mexican society segment that could not read and suffered the injustices of a country in crisis as from an oppressive government as well.
Posada addressed a variety of topics such as love, politics, death, magic, customs, religion, art, prayers, natural disasters, love booklets, songbooks and red note political cartoons at newspapers.  The art of Posada put the face of death to images of life.  Admiring the art of Posada one can discover through its skulls the genius of one of the greatest graphics chroniclers and an artist of an extraordinary sensitivity that portrayed the poor people of Mexico as no one else did.
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