Signed stencil print on handmade paper, edition of 200, this graphic piece was part of the text "Tale of the Rabbit and Coyote" which tells the story of the Zapotec oral tradition that tells why the coyote always howls at the Moon. A rabbit steals chili peppers in a garden and the farmer sets a trap to catch it. Thus begins a series of adventures between the rabbit and the coyote; Initially the illustrations were for Colibrí magazine, in 1976.
"Cuento del Conejo y el Coyote" (“Story of the Rabbit and the Coyote”) is a story narrated in the Zapotec tradition. This book gives continuity to a project started in 2005 with the goal of preserving the indigenous languages. There are different editions in Spanish, Zapotec, and English published with the support of Galería Arvil. Some editions include illustrations intervened by Francisco Toledo, an introductory text, and stories by Natalia Toledo and Carlos Monsiváis, Luis Carlos Emerich, and Elisa Ramírez. It is signed and numbered 199/200 in red pencil.
This work will be shipped within the US for a cost of $100, as it needs to be shipped flat, if shipped without the framing. Please inquire for packing and shipping costs with the framing. For worldwide shipping, it will ship at our cost of $150, and the work will be shipped flat. We guarantee the authenticity and will provide a COA. In addition MLA offers a lifetime trade in policy on all of our artwork.
Recognized worldwide for his work and personality, Toledo is considered one of the greatest Mexican artists of the 21st century. He was a multidisciplinary artist, cultural promoter and social fighter in favor of indigenous people and the environment. Expert in painting, drawing, sculpting and engraving, he frequently imposed his non-rational interpretation of reality.
Through Rufino Tamayo, he managed to study in Paris and sell his first works. Having experienced the artistic avant-garde, his work began to have its own style and although he came to be associated with the Generation of Breakup, he always established his autonomous character.
Among the constant themes in his work are fantastic figures, human and animal, sex, insects, the study of eschatology and entomology, as well as Oaxacan traditions and culture. His work acts and raises plastic aspects, in it he proposes textures through shading with colors that generate sensory experimentation.
In 1988 he founded the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca and in 2005 he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize from the Swedish foundation Right Livelihood Award for his work in defense of cultural heritage. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and his work is part of the collections of the Museums of Modern Art in Mexico City, Philadelphia, New York and Paris, as well as the Tate Gallery in London and the Kunstnaneshus in Oslo, among countless others.
