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Intense, scary, personal, sensual, funny, obscene, off-putting, the work of Francisco Toledo conjures all of those, and often at the same time, as the observer goes from one moment to the next, back and forth, again and again experiencing them. My attraction was instantaneous when I took a book of Toledo’s work off a shelf in a friend’s apartment in Paris in the late 1980’s and looked at them. I like these woodcuts a lot; they are from a later book. Some are very light and some are very dark. But there they are.
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Burro conejo, 1970, Xilografia, coloreado a mano, z8 x 65 cmBurro rabbit
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Dos largatos, 1999, Xilografia, color, 25 x 20 cmTwo lizards
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El dueno del caballo, 1974, Camafeo, xilografia, aguafuerte, agautinta y ruleta, 37 x 47.5 cmThe dream of a horse
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El zapato 111, 1969, Xilografia, 71 x 51 cmThe shoe, III
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Grazas, 1983, Aguafuerte, xilografia, punta seca, 37 x 33 cmSquawks
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La muchacha y el leon, 83, Xilografia y aguafuerte, color, 30 x 25.5 cmThe girl and the lion
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Los peces, 1969, Xilografia, prueba de artista, 60 x 73 cmFish
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Mujer descabezada, 1970, Xilografia, coloreada a mano, 64 x 38Beheaded Woman
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Pelea de grillos. 1990, xilografia, color, 32.6 x 40 cmFight of the crickets
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Cabesas de elefante, 1983, Xilografia, color, 37 x 36.8 cmHeads of an elephant
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Chancha con cadena, 1983, Xilografia, 26.5 x 13.5 cmSow with chain
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Conejo con cucharones, 1983, Punta seca, xilografia y ruleta, 20 x 31.5 cmRabbit with spoons
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La hermana de Juárez cose ajeno, 1984, Xilografia, aguafuerte, aguatinta, fotograbado, y color, 34.8 x 27.3 cmJuárez’s sister sews in the distance
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