Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)
Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)
Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)

© Francisco Toledo

Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)
Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)
Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)

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Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder),

1992

Francisco Toledo, 1940–2019, born Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico; died Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico; active Oaxaca de Juárez
2001-106
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Online Collection Sets: The Allegorical Figure in Latin American Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

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Title
Muerte y escalera (Death and Ladder)
Dates

1992

Maker
Francisco Toledo
Medium
Collage with watercolor, white gouache, and graphite
Dimensions
42.6 x 34.5 cm (16 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
2001-106
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca, Oaxaca City

Signatures
Signed in graphite, bottom left: Toledo.
Culture
Mexican
Type
collages, drawings
Materials
watercolor, gouache, wove paper, graphite, Japanese paper
Techniques
collage
Subject
death, ladders, figures (representations), skeletons

David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL (until 2001; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum).

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