The Doctor and Death

Adolfo Mexiac Mexican
 Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

The subject of this print is not entirely clear. The doctor seems to be handing two children over to Death. One child looks to the doctor, the other at Death, suggesting uncertainty about their fate. Are the doctor and Death somehow complicit, and what is the figure in the background pouring into a glass? As a printmaker, Mexiac was mainly concerned with the efficacy of prints to address social injustice and political oppression. During the 1950s, he worked with like-minded artists at the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City.

The Doctor and Death, Adolfo Mexiac (Mexican, Cuto de la Esperanza, Michoacán 1927–2019 Cuernavaca), Linocut

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