Francisco Toledo (1940 - 2019), El elefante

Francisco Toledo (1940 - 2019)
El elefante
indistinctly signed, titled and inscribed 'Toledo N.Y. Elefante' (on the reverse)
oil and sand on canvas
48 x 60 in. (121.9 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1978.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS FOUNDATION
Post Lot Text
1 Luis Cardoza y Aragón, quoted in Erika Billeter, “In the Cosmos of the Animals—The Adventure of the Fantasy,” in Zoología Fantástica (Mexico City: Prisma Editorial, 2003), 27.
2 Francisco Toledo, quoted in George Mead Moore, “Francisco Toledo,” Bomb 70 (Winter 2000): 115.
3 Billeter, “In the Cosmos of the Animals,” 25.
4 Toledo, quoted in Dawn Ades, “Toledo,” in Francisco Toledo (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2000), 33.
5 Verónica Volkow, “In the Beginning, the World Became Body,” in Francisco Toledo (Los Morales Polanco, Mex.: Smurfit Cartón y Papel de México, 2002), 40, 42-3.