Alberto Beltrán - Poster/Broadsheet - Calaveras de San Cristóbal - 1952 AP1386

Rare and fragile and funny and macabre... Skeletons running the famous people's printing press. This print was created in the style reminiscent of a Jose Guadalupe Posada broadside. The image includes the text of a corrido, with rhyming lyrics, and calaveras, the skeleton figures of Mexico's popular art forms that may suggest Mesoamerican deities. A beautiful act of homage. Purchased from a Mexico City collector who acquired a trove of Alberto Beltrán's drawings and prints from the artist's estate. These pieces give us a wonderful insight into the process (and breadth of interests) of this hitherto somewhat neglected artist,  whose work is only just now coming into prominence. Alberto Beltrán García (born March 22, 1923, Mexico City, d. April 19, 2002, Mexico City) was a Mexican graphic artist and painter known principally for his work with publications such as illustrations and political cartoons but he created a number of murals as well. He was born in the rough neighborhood of Tepit