A dance with men in dresses paired with men in suits from a broadside entitled 'Los 41 maricones encontrados en un baile de la Calle de la Paz el 20 de Noviembre de 1901'
Medium
Etching on zinc
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/16 × 4 1/4 in. (7.8 × 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930
Accession Number
30.82.107
Tags
DanceStreetsMenDancing
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada · 1852–1913
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver who revolutionized popular art and created some of the most iconic images in Mexican culture. Working primarily with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, he produced over 20,000 images during his career—inexpensive broadsheets sold for a penny on colored paper that made his art accessible to even the poorest workers. He transform...