Gods in Exile

Date:  1930

Medium: Wood engraving

Dimensions (cm.): 9.3 x 7.6

Variants: A trial proof in collection of the Metropolitan Msueum of Art, New York, is incompletely carved. Annotations on proof are probably by Jean Charlot.

Alternate titles: Unknown

Published edition: Unknown

Contemporary publication: Heinrich Heine, Gods in Exile, title page (see commentary, below)

References: Information to be added

Selected additional references (illustrated): Caplow 2017, 76

Commentary: Méndez created this print after his first trip to the United States as one of several illustrations for an edition of the essay Gods in Exile by the German poet and writer Heinrich Heine. The essay, in which the Greek gods were portrayed as being in exile after having been superseded by Christianity, was originally published in 1854. The new edition was conceived in 1930 by a group of book and printing aficionados in Los Angeles, California, but not actually published until 1962, when Grant Dahlstrom published a hand-printed edition of about 100 copies at the Castle Press, Pasadena, California. (Peter Schneider)

Catalogue record number: 501