¡Victoria! . . . Destrucción total del fascismo (Victory! . . . Total Destruction of Fascism) Artist: Ángel Bracho (Mexican, 1911–2005)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, founded 1937)

1945

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 7/16 in. (80 × 59.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Holmes Pearson, B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1941

Accession Number

1954.4.29

Geography

Made in Mexico

Culture

Mexican

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Bibliography
  • Michael Ricker et al., El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte, exh. cat. (Athens, Ga.: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2015), 165, ill
  • Dawn Ades and Alison McClean, Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960, ed. Mark McDonald, exh. cat. (London; Austin: British Museum Press, 2009), 141, no. 74
  • Gina Costa et al., Para la gente : art, politics and cultural identity of the Taller de Gra´fica Popular : selected works form the Charles S. Hayes Collection of twentieth-century Mexican graphics, exh. cat. (Notre Dame (IN): Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2009), 36, no. 5, Plate 5
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Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs

Inscriptions

Inscribed in plate, UC: "¡VICTORIA!" (= Victory!); Inscribed in plate below image: "Los Artistas del Taller de Gráfica Popular nos unimos al júbilo de todos / los Trabajadores y Hombres Progrecistas de México y del Mundo por el / Triunfo del glorioso Ejército Rojo y de las Armas de todas las Naciones / Unidas sobre la Alemania Nazi, como el paso más trascendente para la / DESTRUCCION TOTAL DEL FASCISMO" (= We, the artists of the Taller des Grafica Popular, join the jubilation of all workers and progressive men of Mexico and the world about the triumph of the glorious Red Army and the arms of all the united nations over Nazi Germany. As it is the most transcendent step towards the total destruction of fascism).\r\n\r\n

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