La piel del tigre
Date: 1944
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): Information to be added
Variants: The Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, holds an unfinished proof.
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 46. Illustrated book published by La Estampa Mexicana and printed at the Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1944, in an edition of 1,200, 178 of which were numbered. Promotional materials stated that the images were printed from the original blocks.
Méndez 25 prints: portfolio of 25 images from Incidentes melódicos, hand-printed at the TGP on china paper, in an edition of 25 numbered portfolios, 7 unnumbered portfolios. Published by La Estampa Mexicana, 1945. This image is number 15 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 15 in graphite, lower right corner.
Additional impressions, signed and unsigned, were printed outside the edition. Number of impressions unknown.
Contemporary publication: Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.
References: Prignitz 479, included in 498-523
Catalogue record number: 534