AL PUBLICO DE LA AMERICA LATINA. 1938.

Mexico: s.p. (Breton et al), 1938

46 x 33cm, black on cream broadside/wall poster/political tract. A significant political intervention by Breton, Kahlo and Rivera following the former’s trip to Mexico.

The text is a repudiation of the reaction Breton found from the Stalinist forces of traditional communism – Breton had travelled in part to meet Trotsky (at the time a ‘friend’ of Rivera and Kahlo) so such a reaction might well have been expected. Signed in print by Bravo, Asunsulo, Barragan, Bracho, Chavez, Cuesta, Dalevuelta, Encisco, Gorostiza, Kahlo, Lazo, Magana, Marin, Merida, Montemayor, Montenegro, Moro, Nandino, Novo, Pellicer, Rivera, Ruiz, Tamayo, Toor, Velazquez, Villaurrutia, de la Vega, Zamora, Icaza and Villegas.

The paper is minorly browned and fragile – folded into four and with tears and edge damage (none of which affect the text see photograph) but this is an exceptionally rare and important document in any condition.