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Corrido de la expropiación petrolera (Ballad of the Oil Expropriation) from Untitled [album of broadsides by Taller de Gráfica Popular]

Alfredo ZalceWW-1940-M009518

1940·Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides·irreg. composition 11 9/16 x 8 1/16" (29.4 x 20.5 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1940
Medium: Photolithographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing from a spiral-bound album with 25 broadsides
Dimensions: irreg. composition 11 9/16 x 8 1/16" (29.4 x 20.5 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Alfredo Zalce

Artist

Alfredo Zalce

Printmaking

Alfredo Zalce was a Mexican painter and printmaker active from the 1930s onward, working in a figurative style grounded in social realism and Mexican political art. His practice encompassed mural painting, easel works, and woodcuts that engaged with themes of labor, indigenous culture, and national identity. Zalce remained committed to accessible, publicly oriented forms throughout a long career spanning the postwar period and beyond.

Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico

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