LACANDONES diez dibujos de Edmundo Calderon

Toluca, Mexico: Citlalli, 1967. First printing. Portfolio. Folio. The ten reproductions of the original charcoal drawings in this portfolio are all signed in the plate and each measures 42 x 32 cm. on stiff card. The text is in Spanish and English, and the subject of each plate is identified. The stiff card folder shows wear and some soiling. The pages are thumbed at the corners, last pages show faint tide mark across the bottom margin, miniscule amount of staining to the bottom margin of four plates, minor edgewear. Only 300 copies of this portfolio were produced - our copy is designated no. 151. Calderon was a Mexican artist from Toluca. In 1963 he visited the publisher and art critic Paul Westheim in Mexico City, and showed him ten charcoal drawings of the Lacandon tribe of Mayan Indians, which he had drawn seven years earlier during a visit to Bonampak as an artist member of a private expedition organized in cooperation with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History.