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Three figures in the guise of skeletons

Alfredo Zalce

ca 1940–1945

The dictator President Porfirio Díaz leaving Mexico on ship 'el Ipiranga', figures waving while others throw rocks

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Nini comes out shorn, a group of people outdoors, illustration for 'Don Bullebulle'

Gabriel Vicente Gahona (Picheta)

ca. 1847 (impression printed 1944)

Poster celebrating the victory of defeating the Nazis, bombs with British, Soviet and American insignia rain down and a Nazi skeleton crawls from the flames

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Pelican (Pelicano), plate 1 from "8 Aguafuertes a Color" (8 Color Etchings)

Alfredo Zalce

1947

A battle in the countryside, illustration for 'Hidalgo'

Alfredo Zalce

ca. 1946

A skull in flames, from "El Sombrerón"

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Corn cribs (a type of granary) with a figure in the foreground

Alfredo Zalce

1947

Plate 7: Mexican chaingang being forced to break rocks in a quarry in the Valle Nacional in Oaxaca, guarded by a rifle-bearing foreman, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Alfredo Zalce

1946

A man reading and a man listening to him

Alfredo Zalce

1941

Rats marked with the Nazi Swastika devouring books, the padlocked 'Escuela Normal' at the right

Alfredo Zalce

1943

Miguel Hidalgo conversing with men seated at a table, illustration for 'Hidalgo'

Alfredo Zalce

ca. 1946

Poster relating to the expropriation of foreign oil interests. A group of figures holding coins they contribute to support the cause and assuage the crisis precipitated by expropriation

Alfredo Zalce

ca. 1938

Victoriano Huerta locking up his opponents on 10 October 1913

Alfredo Zalce

1945

A skeleton holding a dagger and wearing a helmet decorated with a swastika hovering over an explosion on the island/reef of Bikini in the Pacific ocean

Alfredo Zalce

1946

The parable of the dream, a group of people around a woman on a bed, illustration for 'Don Bullebulle'

Gabriel Vicente Gahona (Picheta)

1847 (reprinted 1944)

The Palizada river, from 'Estampas de Yucatan' (1946)

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Venustiano Carranza holding a copy of the 1917 constitution

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Female soldier assisting the wounded (La soldadera), Plate 88 from "450 Años de Lucha: Homenaje al Pueblo Mexicano" (450 Years of Struggle: Homage to the Mexican People)

Alfredo Zalce

1960

Brick makers, men carrying and stacking bricks

Alfredo Zalce

1931

Head of a monstrous figure surrounded by fists (possibly an anti-fascist motif)

Alfredo Zalce

1946

Two people looking up at an American airplane flying overhead

Alfredo Zalce

1941

The revolution and chaos (La revolucon y los estragos), Plate 64 from "450 Años de Lucha: Homenaje al Pueblo Mexicano" (450 Years of Struggle: Homage to the Mexican People)

Alfredo Zalce

1960

Plate 60: the benefits of education instigated through the programmes of Alvaro Obregon (1920-23) and Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28), from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Alfredo Zalce

1947

Venustiano Carranza, promoter of the 1917 Constitution (Venustiano Carranza, promotor de la constitucion de 1917 (1859–1920)), Plate 94 from "450 Años de Lucha: Homenaje al Pueblo Mexicano" (450 Years of Struggle: Homage to the Mexican People)

Alfredo Zalce

1960

Disembarcation of 42 Mexican workers reduced by hunger in the Southern United States - Port of Manzanillo (1937)

Alfredo Zalce

1937

What an article of truths and lies; a man standing on a printing press, illustration for 'Don Bullebulle'

Gabriel Vicente Gahona (Picheta)

ca. 1847 (impression printed 1944)

Taxi drivers against the Gold Shirts in the Zócalo, Mexico City on 20 November 1935

Alfredo Zalce

1946

Plutarco Elías Calles is deported by order of the government of General Lázaro Cárdenas. 1936 (Plutarco Elías Calles es deportado por órdenes del gobierno del general Lázaro Cárdenas. 1936), Plate 107 from "450 Años de Lucha: Homenaje al Pueblo Mexicano" (450 Years of Struggle: Homage to the Mexican People)

Alfredo Zalce

1960

On an island situated between Cabo Catoche and Sibera; a group of monkeys around a table, one hanging from the ceiling reading a book (The Editors), illustration for 'Don Bullebulle'

Gabriel Vicente Gahona (Picheta)

ca. 1847 (impression printed 1944)

On the Pier (En el Muelle), plate 2 from "8 Aguafuertes a Color" (8 Color Etchings)

Alfredo Zalce

1947

The weaver of bécal hats, from 'Estampas de Yucatan' (1946)

Alfredo Zalce

1945

Eight uncut pages from the Marxist newspaper 'Rumbo Grafico' with illustrations by Méndez and Zalce including an advertisement from the TGP offering their design and printing services at competitive prices for effective propaganda

Alfredo Zalce

1940

A Storm, from "El Sombrerón"

Alfredo Zalce

1945

8 Aguafuertes a Color (8 Color Etchings)

Alfredo Zalce

1947

Sailfish (Pez vela), plate 7 from "8 Aguafuertes a Color" (8 Color Etchings)

Alfredo Zalce

1947

Title page for 'Don Bullebulle', satirical vignettes of different members from society

Gabriel Vicente Gahona (Picheta)

1847 (impression taken in 1944)

An allegory relating to the National Synarchist Union (Unión Nacional Sinarquista) a Mexican political organization

Alfredo Zalce

ca 1945–47

A hammock installed inside a room

Alfredo Zalce

1944

Two posters; the one at left by Méndez depicting a figure with a swastika on his back and a dollar coin for his head wielding a knife about to murder men looking at newsheets; the image at right by Zalce relating to the 'revolutionary army', the power of foreign petroleum companies and corruption

Leopoldo Méndez

1938

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