Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This review of the caricaturist Ricardo Rendón was written a few days after his death. The writer of the review, Enrique Millán, explains that his goal was to record certain details of the artist’s life and work. Millán is surprised that Rendón [...]

In this obituary from September 1959, the critic Aldo Pellegrini makes known the suicide of Wolfgang Paalen in Mexico City. Pellegrini bitterly laments the obscurity of this artist’s work and remembers with admiration not only his artistic career, [...]