Artist: Mexican School.
Title: "Pancho Villa Reward Poster [original hand-pulled & printed "wanted" poster]".
Medium: Linotype.
Date: Composed 1916.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/16 x 8 5/8 in. (284 x 219 mm).
Lot Note(s): Annotated on the verso: "J.D.A.A. - colección de". Printed on light green wove 'Papel Revolucion' paper, in common use at the time and the same paper used by Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo to produce the Jose Guadalupe Posada broadsides. The full sheet. Fine impression. Overall very good condition, with the expected edge fading common to this type of paper. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, Chihuahua, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Comment(s): The verso annotation translates to "Collection of J.D.A.A." José Doroteo Arango Arámbula was Villa's given name before he changed it to the pseudonym Francisco (Pancho) Villa. One of the most famous reward/wanted posters in history. Shortly after the printing of the American version of the poster, it was printed in Mexico and distributed in the northern part of that country by Villa's opponents, in English, as issued, to lend credibility. Because of the ephemeral nature of this type of material, the limited quantities produced, and the use of the extremely fragile newsprint paper, the Mexican version of the poster is rarer than the American, and both are very rare. [29283-2-1600]

Overall very good condition, with the expected edge fading common to this type of paper.