The collection comes from 2010, as the culmination of the commemorative acts organized on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Independence and the Centenary of the Revolution of Mexico. It contains 51 illustrations made by different engraving techniques -each of them numbered and signed by its author- as well as a bronze sculpture, the last work done by Leonora Carrington in 2010.

The selection of the artists was carried out by acknowledged experts of an Academic Committee from the Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico and the National Art and Culture Council. The donated works show a representative selection of contemporary graphic art, in which artists from different generations appear, some of them with already a firm experience and recognized career behind them, while others represent the new hopes for the future of the Mexican illustration art.

The donation will be exhibited for the public in the second half of the upcoming year.

For more information, please contact: Beáta Faith, Embassy of Mexico, Tel: 06 1 326 0447

The annexed photo made by Márton Hardy, shows a small sculpture of a mythic animal figure by Leonora Carrington whose full-size version is placed in the Avenue Paseo de Las Palmas in Mexico City.