'THE GREAT PANTHEON OF LOVERS' DAY OF THE DEAD PRINT

CALAVERAS!!!
Calaveras (Spanish for skulls) are produced every year for the day of the dead - a day of festivity, when prints, skeletal artefacts, toys, cakes and sweets are sold and ritualistic offerings are made to dead relatives. The great Mexican printmakers Manuel Manilla (1830 - 1895) and J.G Posada (1852 - 1913) made hundreds of Calaveras or Dances of Death which show skeletons in everyday acts, working, drinking, dancing, preaching, fighting, flirting and riding bicycles and display an incomparable mixture of vanity and morbidity.

Screen printed by hand in London on handmade paper.
Comes in a strong red Magma poster tube.

Illustration taken from (The Great Pantheon of Lovers) by J.G Posada.

This print measures 76cm x 57cm