Salinas de Celestun (Salt Deposits of Celestun)

 

Alfredo Zalce

  1908 - 2003 (biography)

c. 1940  

lithograph 

9 1/8 x 13 1/2" image 

unsigned 

unsigned proof; outside of the edition of 100 signed impressions for "Estampas de Yucatan" published 

titled verso, stamps of TGP verso 

Prignitz 532; Georgia, illustrated page 274 

heavy cream wove 

published 

El Taller de Grafica Popular, stamped verso 

12937 

$400.00 

In 1944 Zalce traveled to southeastern Mexico to learn more about the contemporary indigenous and regional Mayan cultures of the Yucatan. The result was his portfolio of eight lithographs titled "Estampas de Yucatan" which portrayed the people he met with care and dignity. This image depicts harvesting season in the flats of the Celestun, a town in northwest region of the Yucatan. It is now a wetland reserve that is home to several endangered species of fauna, including wintering flamingos, herons, and sea turtles.