While best known for his paintings and sculptures, Rafael Canogar was also a prolific printmaker, and La Violencia is one of his most important graphic works. Printed at Tamarind Workshop in Los Angeles, La Violencia is a suite of eight emotionally charged lithographs depicting the harsh realities of violent conflict.

This lithograph is entitled El Muerto. It is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. It and the rest of the portfolio are part of a larger work depicting theoretical events in the Latin America of the late 1960s, but it is disturbingly pertinent to today’s world scene. This lithograph and the others in the portfolio are included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. The entire portfolio is offered here and can be seen in the collections section of this gallery’s listings under the title “Canogar La Violencia”.