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Francisco Toledo was an artist of prodigious gifts: a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramicist. Toledo’s art combines diverse materials and practices. A bronze sculpture is painted and gold-leafed, a painting incised, a drawing on wood, partially erased, carved and in-painted.
Francisco Toledo exhibits a series of about 40 self-portraits. He is regarded as one of the finest living artists in Mexico, and enjoys an international reputation within the art world, if not so much beyond it.
Francisco Toledo. by Dore Ashton. Art Critic/Author. Her many booksinclude: American Art since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, and Twentieth Century Artists on Art. (This essay was pulished in the catalog "Francisco Toledo" in 1991 by Latin American Masters)
These volumes compile six decades of work by Francisco Toledo, along with expert reflections on the value and significance of his artistic work. The result is four volumes that include almost the entire trajectory of master Francisco Toledo.
A Zapotec in origin whose tenacious roots were never obscured by his "world of plastic relations", Tamayo was quick to see the extraordinary character of the young Toledo who, like him, had issued into the great world from small Zapotec villages.
Latin American Masters. 2525 Michigan Avenue E2, Santa Monica, CA 90404 . t: (310) 829-4455. e: info@latinamericanmasters.com. Back To Top. Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Gallery.
In his homeland, Toledo went by the nickname of ‘El Maestro’ (The Master). He died in September 2019, aged 79, prompting Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to declare that ‘art is in mourning’. Toledo had worked in an array of media, from pottery to weaving. However, it’s painting for which he is best known.
