Moreno Capdevilla Francisco (2 results)

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 23x33cms.,10p.,( sin enumerar ).; Cubiertas en tapas blandas con grabado a color en cubierta delantera. Numerosos grabados a color a lo largo de la obra. Texto limpio. En muy buen estado. Francisco Moreno Capdevilla y Lorenzo Guerrero (illustrator).

color illus., color pict. wrps. Profusely illustrated book by Francisco Moreno Capdevilla and Lorenzo Guerrero with designs and set design by Julio Prieto relating to the Mexican Revolution. apdevila was born in Barcelona, Spain. As he was only thirteen years old when he and his family fled Spain after the fall of the Republicans, arriving to Mexico in 1939 as a political refugee. He his career studying painting with Santos Balmori and engraving with Carlos Alvarado Lang .[Capdevila spent most of his career in the graphic arts, working in workshops and print enterprises,[3] studying and working with graphic artists such as Carlos Alvarado Lang, Gabriel Fernández Ledesma and Francisco Díaz de León. From 1946 to 1959, he worked as a draftsman and engraver at the Imprenta Universitaria, which was the editorial branch of the Secretaría de Educación Pública. He began exhibiting his graphic work in 1952 in Mexico and abroad, with his first individual exhibition at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1962. He had an individual exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1981. In 1987, the Palacio de Bellas Artes held a retrospective called Visión multiple, with examples of his paintings, engravings and tapestries. His first and most significant mural was created in 1964 for the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, called Destruction of the City of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. His prominence, especially in the graphic arts led to membership in various prestigious organizations. From 1954 to 1974, he was a prominent member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores. In 1960, he became part of the Nuevas Generaciones de la Plástica Mexicana group and became a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1961. He became a member of the Academia de Artes in 1988. He was also a member of the Grupo Nuevos Grabadores and the Salón Independiente. (some light chipping on spine wrps).…