The French artist Charlot settled in Mexico in 1921. He played a crucial role in promoting printmaking that could reach a mass audience and in the rediscovery and revival of interest in Posada’s work. His own work reflects his interest in the Mexican people, clearly discernable in the two prints displayed here. From 1926 to 1928 Charlot lived at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá. The conflation of Christian and pre-Hispanic iconography in First Steps reflects the hybrid nature of Mexican culture.
The tortilla maker
Artist: Jean Charlot (French, Paris 1898–1979 Honolulu, Hawaii)
Date: 1941
Medium: Colour lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 × 20 in. (33 × 50.8 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 18 9/16 in. (31.8 × 47.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Albert Carman, 1942
Accession Number: 42.111.2
Rights and Reproduction: © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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