Lo que puede venir
Date: 1945
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 30.5 x 17.5
Alternate titles: Lo que no debe venir; Amenaza sobre México; Autorretrato; Lo que vendrá
Published edition:
Unsigned edition published by the Art Institute of Chicago Print and Drawing Club. Printed by Max Kahn. Stamp on verso with text: PRINTED IN 194 [blank to insert year] FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCK IN THE COLLECTION OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO FOR THE PRINT AND DRAWING CLUB. Sheet dimensions approx. 36.1 x 23.7 cm. Number of impressions unknown.
Additional impressions were printed outside the AIC edition. Méndez [1949?] gives the number of impressions (probably referring to those outside the AIC edition) as 100 approx.
Contemporary publication: Revista 1945 (diciembre 1945)
References: Academia de Artes 1921, Exposición de Homenaje 531, 644 (illus.); Méndez INBA 52; Prignitz 254.
Selected additional references (illustrated): Maples Arce 1970, pl. 71.
Cataloging note: The print was commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago in connection with its solo exhibition of Méndez's work in 1945. The original block is in the collection of the AIC.
Catalogue record number: 545