10. Jean Charlot
(1898-1979)
Woman Lifting Rebozo

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Charlot: Woman Lifting Rebozo

Woman Lifting Rebozo

Lithograph, 1934, 225 x 325 mm., Morse 233. Fine impression on wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 20. Charlot was born in Paris, France, descended from, as he later wrote, “sundry exotic ancestors.” These included Russian, Aztec and Sephardic Jewish. He studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts and served in the French army in World War I. In 1922 he went to Mexico where he painted murals and portraits, did archeological and art historical work and was, among other things, assistant to Diego Rivera. He traveled to New York for the first time in 1928, visited Los Angeles, and became an American citizen in 1940, eventually settling in Hawaii. Charlot was an important artist. Apart from his paintings, his murals and his scholarly work, he left a large legacy of fine prints in a personal and distinctive style.