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Amado M. Pena Jr. Lithograph "Los Seis"

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Amado M. Pena Jr. Lithograph "Los Seis"
Amado M. Pena Jr. Lithograph "Los Seis"
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Amado M. Pena Jr. Lithograph "Los Seis"

Estimate: $200 - $300

Current Bid: $100

(2 Bids)
by Artemis Fine Arts
June 5, 2026 9:00 AM MDT
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Louisville, CO, US 80027

Amado Maurilio Pena, Jr. (Mexican-American, b. 1943). "Los Seis" lithograph, n.d. Edition 25 of 65. Hand-signed at lower right, titled at lower center, and numbered at lower left. Blind stamps at lower right and left.. A spare, contemplative lithograph by Amado Maurilio Pena Jr. titled "Los Seis." Six figures emerge in profile along the left edge of the sheet, draped in serape-like garments whose graphite-rich folds cascade downward into open, untouched paper. The bodies dissolve into pale, undulating contours that suggest desert ridges as much as reclining forms, a hallmark of Pena's blending of the indigenous figure with the Southwestern landscape. The composition's restraint, almost monochromatic, lets the rhythm of repetition do the symbolic work: six shrouded sentinels standing in for community, endurance, and the mestizo heritage Pena has championed throughout his career. Pencil-signed at the lower right, titled at the lower center, and numbered 25 of 65 at the lower left, with blind stamps at the lower left and right corners attesting to the print's workshop authentication. Pena, born in Laredo, Texas, rose to prominence in the 1970s as a leading voice of the Chicano art movement, his graphic vocabulary fusing Pre-Columbian motifs with the textiles and physiognomy of the Tarahumara, Navajo, and Hopi peoples.. 18" W x 26" H (45.7 cm W x 66.0 cm H).

About the artist: Amado Maurilio Pena, Jr. (b. 1943, Laredo, Texas) is a Mestizo printmaker and educator whose serigraphs translate the geography and peoples of the American Southwest into a bold, geometric idiom. Of Mexican and Yaqui descent, Pena came of age in a Rio Grande border town where class lines were visible from childhood, an early lesson in division that would later sharpen into political conviction. He earned his BA and MA at Texas A&I (now Texas A&M Kingsville) and taught art in the public schools of Laredo, Crystal City, and Austin.

The Chicano Movement reached Texas in the 1970s, and it reached Pena through his instructor Mel Casas, who pressed a generation of artists to document Mexican American life on canvas, paper, and wall. Pena answered, and in the process began to recover the Indigenous half of his lineage, mentored in time by the painter Jose Encarnacion Pena. His mature work turns from protest toward homage: Canyon de Chelly, Spider Rock, Monument Valley, Acoma, and Enchanted Mesa appear flattened into pattern, their inhabitants rendered with monumental simplicity, the woven and ceramic vocabularies of the region absorbed into the contours of the land itself.

His prints entered the landmark traveling exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (1990 to 1993) and are held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the U.S. Department of State's Art in Embassies collection. Pena is a recognized artisan of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.

Provenance: private Denver, Colorado, USA collection, acquired in the 1980s

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Item # 196659

  • Condition: Excellent. Fold to corner, but, otherwise, lithograph is in excellent overall condition. Hand-signed at lower right, titled at lower center, and numbered at lower left. Blind stamps at lower right and left.

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