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JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO Desocupado.
Lithograph, 1932. 375x265 mm; 14 3/4x10 1/2 inches, full margins. Numbered 50/100 in pencil, lower left. With the "Made in France" ink stamp, lower right. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Published by Delphic Studios, New York. A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce lithograph.
According to Hopkins, "In 1932 while in Paris, Orozco became acquainted with touche the ink could be applied to the [lithograph] stone with a brush for rich black tones. Experimenting with this in his only work produced outside of continental America, Desocupado (or Unemployed—Paris), 1932, Orozco diluted the liquid to achieve a watercolor affect and also put it on thickly, scratching away parts of it with a needle for greater characterization in detail." Hopkins 22.
