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¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se asesina a un general? (How, why and for what was the general assassinated?, poster for the film directed by Santiago Álvarez)

(Cuban, born in 1948)
1971
Medium/TechniquePoster, screenprint
DimensionsSheet: 76.2 × 50.8 cm (30 × 20 in.)
Credit LineLee M. Friedman Fund
Accession number2019.34
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBetween about 1969 and 2019, acquired by Sandra Levinson, Center for Cuban Studies, Cuban Art Space, New York [see note]; 2019, sold by the Center for Cuban Studies to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)

NOTE: This comes from a large group of posters assembled over five decades. Many were acquired in the 1970s by gift or purchase from the artist, printer, or publisher; others were purchased more recently on the market in Cuba.
Untitled, 2000
Jorge Pardo
2000
Enrique Flores González
1993
Dance Before the Fire (Danza ante fuego)
Francisco Iturrino González
1900-1910
Sunset Point, Wellfleet
Xavier Gonzalez
1918–53
Study for Woman with Mirror
Julio González
1937
Sin Familia
Raúl González III
2011
Martyrdom of Saint Marta
Antonio Gonzalez Velázquez
about 1740–42
Saints Ippolito, Taurino, and Ercolano
Antonio Gonzalez Velázquez
about 1740–42
Azcuy (René Azcuy-Cardenas)
1970