Raul Anguiano (1915-2006) - Madre con su hija

This is a magnificent lithograph by Anguiano made in 1983. It measures 56 cm x 76 cm, is signed in pencil, and is P/A.

ANGUIANO VALADEZ, Raúl (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1915 – Mexico City, 2006).
Lithography
Signed, dated, and hand-justified.
Measurements: 76 x 56 cm.
Painter, muralist, and printmaker, Raúl Anguiano was a founder of the Taller de Gráfica Popular in 1938, and that same year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Shortly after, in 1941, he moved to the United States, where he studied and taught. He later also became a professor at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He was also a founder of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. After receiving early recognition, Anguiano was awarded for his work in Brazil, Los Angeles, and Mexico, was named Commendatore of Italy, and in 2000, he was awarded the National Prize for Sciences and Arts of Mexico. He is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Guadalajara and the Museo del Dibujo y la Ilustración in Buenos Aires, among many other public and private collections.

In 1937, Anguiano joined the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists. Alongside Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Taller de Gráfico Popular, where the artist practiced a graphic style based on Mexico's popular traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered José Guadalupe Posada and Goya.


Raúl Anguiano belongs to the so-called 'Third Generation' of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado, Alfredo Zalce, Jesús Guerrero Galván, and Julio Castellanos, all known for being heterodox, associated with politics and art. Anguiano's work is considered an expression of his time due to its undeniable Mexican flavor, and his connection to his people is clear, not only in his murals but also in textiles, engravings, pencil and ink drawings, lithographs, and illustrations, and more recently in sculpture and ceramics. Without compromising his personality or his ethnic roots, and without allowing these to limit him, Anguiano has reclaimed and utilized the principles of modern art, giving his border work a universal and transcendent character.


Anguiano held his first solo exhibition, titled 'Raúl Anguiano and Máximo Pacheco,' at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1935; and in 1940, he participated in his first group exhibition, 'Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art.' This was followed by more than 100 exhibitions in many countries such as Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, the United States, France, Italy, the former Soviet Union, Israel, Germany, and Japan.