Mitin improvisado

Date:  1937

Medium: Linocut

Dimensions (cm.): 20.0 x 14.2

Variants:

1. Black ink

2. Light green ink on black paper, as published in Anthropos

Alternate titles: Mitin; Unity at all costs

Published edition: 

1. Unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions as 1,200.

2. Reprinted in 1943 in portfolio 25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez: 100 impressions in numbered portfolios, 50 of them on China paper (described as “special imported chinese stock”), plus 3 impressions in unnumbered portfolios. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 12, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.

3. Anthropos, vol. 1 no. 1, abril-mayo-junio 1947 (light green ink on black paper).

Contemporary publication: 

1. El machete, English section, August 15, 1937, p. 13 (with caption "Unity at All Costs")

2. Lorenzo Turrent Rozas, 22 de diciembre (diario de un estudiante) (Mexico City: Editorial México Nuevo, 1937)

3. New Masses 49 No. 1 (October 5, 1943), p. 17

4. Revista 1946, julio 1946

5. Contenido y trascendencia del pensamiento popular mexicano. Mensaje de la Universidad Obrera de México a la UNESCO (México, dic. 1947), p. 45

References: Méndez INBA 9

Catalogue record number: 351