El sueño de los pobres
Date: 1931
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 12.4 x 12.4
Alternate titles: El sueño de los hambrientos; Sueño de hambrientos
Published edition:
Number of individual impressions unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions as 500 approx. (possibly referring to the related poster).
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 2, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Unknown. Méndez [1949?] states “se publicó en cartulina propaganda de Salubridad,” perhaps referring to this related poster.
References: Exposición de Homenaje 386; Méndez INBA 22; included in Prignitz 402-426
Catalogue record number: 42