Stylized girl holding a dog on her lap. Original lithograph, numbered and signed in pencil. Born in La Paz, Graciela Rodo-Boulanger was a Bolivian artist noted for her stylized renderings of children, and that is reflected in the lithograph here, which is titled “Children & Animal Suite” on a paper label on the back. Graciela wanted to be an artist and musician, but found she couldn’t devote all her time to both, so she turned to art and held her first exhibitions in Vienna and Salzburg when she was just 18. She studied etching and printmaking under Johnny Friedlaender in Paris. She married a Frenchman, Boulanger, so she could have a Spanish and French name; her public name became Graciela Rodo de Boulanger in Spanish and Graciela Rodo Boulanger in French. In 1966, her ambition bore fruit then she published her first editions of engravings and exhibited in the United States. In 1979, UNICEF designated her the official artist for the International Year of the Child poster, and two of her tapestries were displayed in the hall of the UN General Assembly. The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington DC. gave a retrospective of her works in 1983. In 1986, the Metropolitan Opera in New York commissioned her poster for Mozart’s The Magic Flute and her paintings were shown by the Art Gallery of Lincoln Center. She has had more than 200 exhibitions world-wide. The Suite is numbered 43 out of 100 in Roman numerals in the lower left margin and signed in the lower right margin. The overall size is 33 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. wide and the sight size is 23 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. wide.