TGP MEXICO. EL TALLER DE GRAFICA POPULAR, DOCE AÑOS DE OBRA ARTÍSTICA COLECTIVA. THE WORKSHOP FOR POPULAR GRAPHIC ART, A RECORD OF TWELVE YEARS OF COLLECTIVE WORK; Hannes Meyer, Director

México, D.F: La Estampa Mexicana, 1949. xxiv, 162p. 18.32 cms. plus 5 original signed woodcuts, bound in spiral, vinyl cover. near fine; plate by Zalce is loose). Item #99450

Includes 5 original signed, woodcuts by by Zalce, Ledesma, Mora, Mendez, and Beltran. Contains over 450 illustrations of the work of TGP (Taller de Gráfica Popular) artists. One of the most comprehensive works on the production of the TGP from its' origin to 1949. This is one of the finest copies that we have seen. LIMITED EDITION OF 1800. English and Spanish text. Prignitz 795-799. SCARCE.
Meyer was a Swiss architect and the second director of the Bauhaus and was fired by Gropius, went to the Soviet Union and then emigrated to Mexico City to work for the Mexican government as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949.

Price: $2,800.00