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

Principal references: Information to be added

Selected additional references (illustrated): 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)

Esta litografía representa un violento enfrentamiento entre miembros del Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM) y la Acción Revolucionaria Mexicanista (ARM), fascista, xenófoba y antisemita, también conocida como los Camisas Doradas, en el Zócalo de la Ciudad de México el 20 de noviembre de 1935. La figura de la izquierda, caída de su caballo, es Nicolás Rodríguez (1890-1940), líder de la ARM. (Peter Schneider)

Catalogue record number: 831