Fiesta Sololá (Guatemala)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1950  

color etching & aquatint 

9 7/8 x 9 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

3 of 4  

titled in pencil, lower left; also titled in the lower left corner of the paper; bears the circular red stamp of Friedl Pollak Collection in lower left corner; inscribed P.P after the red stamp which has an X through it 

 

fine, antique-white laid with mica on the surface 

printer's proof, inscribed P.P 

 

DASL122 

$1,000.00 

The Fiesta Sololá is a major celebration that takes place on August 15 in Sololá, Guatemala, honoring the Virgin of the Assumption (the Virgin Mary). This colonial-era fiesta is celebrated with folk dances, parades, and the inauguration of beauty queens.