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Tigre Mask
Tecuane Dance
painted leather, boar bristles, mirror
mid 20th century
Mexico, Guerrero, Atzacoaloya

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May 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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A rare sterling and turquoise pre-Columbian figure applied on an ebonized wood plaque artwork by Los Castillo circa 1950s.

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The figure depicted is a high-ranking priest or aristocrat with bracelets, anklets, necklace, ear decorations, and an elaborate head decoration. He is cut from sheet silver, then given incised line details and small turquoise stone decoration. The figure is attached to an ebonized wood backing with hanging fixture at back. Also signed "Los Castillo Taxco" at back with an applied round silver plaque. Likely a variation of the 'metales divorciados' (divorced metals) technique invented by Chato in the late 1940s, no longer 'divorciado' and with incised line and stone embellishment. Chato was always inventing and refining his techniques, and this variation no doubt gave birth to the great number of similar works produced by the Talleres Monasticos and Emaus Benedictine monk workshops in Cuernavaca. TM and Emaus sold their works through Los Castillo in the beginning, first as anonymous suppliers, and later signing their work as independent workshops. In the 1980s and 90s, Antonio made a great number of pre-Columbian figure artworks, and this is an intermediate point in the evolution of the form from its 'metales divorciados' birth to the elaborate and dimensional wall sculptures produced by Antonio in the last two decades of his long and illustrious career.
August 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM