Dancers

1931

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

In addition to painting and printmaking, Orozco Romero created set designs and costumes. This print, showing two dancers leaping across a darkened space, might be related to a performance. Other paintings he made around the same time depict the circus. Orozco Romero was an experimental printmaker, and here we see him testing out different types of color pigment. Unusually, only two impressions of this lithograph were printed.

Además de trabajar como pintor y grabador, Orozco Romero creó vestuarios y diseños escénicos. Esta estampa, en la que dos bailarines saltan por un espacio oscurecido, podría tener relación con una representación. Otros cuadros pintados por el artista en la misma época tienen temática circense. Orozco Romero fue un grabador experimental y en esta obra prueba distintos tipos de pigmentos de color. Curiosamente, solo se realizaron dos impresiones de esta litografía.

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Title: Dancers
Artist: Carlos Orozco Romero (Mexican, Guadalajara 1896–1984 Mexico City)
Date: 1931
Medium: Lithograph with color wash and body color applied by hand
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 18 1/8 in. (31.2 × 46 cm)
Image: 9 7/16 × 10 5/8 in. (24 × 27 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1931
Object Number: 31.91.54
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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