This classic image of La Catrina is silk-screened onto textured, artisanal paper that has been hand-painted green with exuberant bursts of orange, red, and yellow speckled brush strokes all over. The image is framed by pale cream-colored marbled paper, cut with an inward-facing zig-zag edge, pasted down. Edges are deckled.

La Catrina, an icon of Mexican culture, was created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in a legendary etching circa 1910. It was intended as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were pretentiously aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions in the pre-revolutionary era.