Camisas Doradas en el Zócalo

Date: 1938

Medium: Lithograph

Dimensions (cm.): 37.0 x 55.7

Alternate titles: Unknown. This title is supplied by the editors.

Published edition:10 numbered impressions on wove paper, signed in graphite lower right, numbered in graphite lower left.

Contemporary publication: Unknown

References: Lear 2017, 305.

Commentary: This print depicts a violent confrontation between members of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and the fascist, xenophobic, and antisemitic Acción Revolucionaria Mexicanista (ARM), also known as the Camisas Doradas, in the Zócalo of Mexico City on November 20, 1935. The figure on the left, fallen from his horse, is Nicolás Rodríguez (1890-1940), the leader of the ARM. (Peter Schneider)

Catalogue record number: 831