“Unlike today, the death of a young child was not a cause for mourning for 19th-century Mexican families. On the contrary, according to the research of anthropologist Sara Bringas Cramer, “newly deceased children were considered ‘little angels’ and, therefore, were celebrated, not mourned.””
Andrea Fischer, Writer
La Muerte Niña, the Mexican funerary practice of preparing deceased children for photographs or paintings, dates back centuries — and there’s a reason behind it.
Like other Mexican “surrealists,” he shunned the label but still managed to leave an international legacy after more than six decades of exuberant and often ironical painting and sculpture.
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