Xylography by 2024 Leonilda Gonzalez, 1977 - Club de Grabado de Montevideo, Uruguay - Numbered - Liber Falco

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"NIÑOS CANTORES" (boys singers or singing children)
Poetry by Liber Falco (Montevideo 1906-1955)
By LEONILDA GONZALEZ
June, 1977

Technique: Xylography

Numbered in pencil.
Print number 1765 of 3000

Overall size: 40 x 29 cm.

Contains the text of a short poem by Liber Falco entitled "Apunte" (note).

"They sing down there.
Some boys sing
while the moon above
like a white night flower
sheds its splendor on the Earth.

Sing down there
and the song rises.
Through the night it rises
like a prayer."

This one is in very good 2024 vintage condition.
As with any vintage prints, please review the photos carefully before you buy, and use the 'zoom' button at the bottom of the picture for an enlarged view.

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It is available in my shop, another engraving identical to this one with a lower price, but in not so good conditions. You can check it here: https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/your/shops/VintageInSpanish/tools/listings/stats:true/609328744

As with any vintage prints, please review the photos carefully before you buy, and use the 'zoom' button at the bottom of the picture for an enlarged view.

Leonilda González (2 February 1923 – 4 January 2017) was a Uruguayan painter and engraver, founder of the Montevideo Engraving Club (es). Her work is represented in the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum and the National Museum of Visual Arts, as well as in private collections in Uruguay and other countries. In 2006 she was recognized with the Figari Award for her career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonilda_Gonz%C3%A1lez

This one is of the monthly prints by the Club de Grabado de Montevideo (CGM)

Club de Grabado de Montevideo (Engraving Club of Montevideo) was a non-profit Uruguayan cultural institution dedicated to the production and promotion of engraving. Created in 1953 in Montevideo, it developed 50 years of activity. (Wikipedia)
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_de_Grabado_de_Montevideo (written in spanish)

You can read more about the Club de Grabado de Montevideo:

1) "CGM" Catalog edited by the Cultural Centre of Spain, (CCE, Centro Cultural de España) some articles in english, full of images.
http://archivo.cce.org.uy/images/stories/mediateca/publicaciones_cce/CATALOGO-CGM.pdf

2) "The Club de Grabado de Montevideo" article by Georgia Phillips-Amos unearths printmaking under the dictatorship, in the book "Signal: 05: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture"
Paperback – September 1, 2016 by Alec Dunn (Editor),‎ Josh MacPhee (Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Journal-International-Political-Graphics/dp/1629631566#reader_1629631566

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