25 prints of Leopoldo Méndez
Published 1943, La Estampa Mexicana, Mexico City
Description: 25 plates loose in portfolio cover (printed tan burlap boards with ribbon closure). Plates are hand-pulled impressions of previously published prints by Méndez.
Date: 1943
Dimensions: 27.6 x 23.0 cm. (portfolio cover); 24.3 x 19.0 cm. (each plate; with minor variations)
Published edition: 100 copies, numbered inside portfolio cover (50 of those on China paper, described as “special imported chinese stock”); 3 unnumbered copies.
Signature and annotations: Impressions are signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated in graphite with the number in the series, usually lower right. Portfolios are numbered in ink, inside front cover.
References: Prignitz 402-426
Contents:
3. Jinetes
4. Casateniente
6. El “Juan”
7. Accidente
8. Concierto sinfónico de calaveras
9. Establero
10. El preso
11. Papeleros
13. Ilustración para un corrido [El machete y el mazo]
14. Niñas tejedoras
15. Chiclero
16. El rayo
17. Juárez
19. Fachismo (1)
20. Fachismo (2)
21. La carta
23. Protesta
24. Portada de un libro [La séptima cruz]
25. La venganza de los pueblos
Cataloging note: According to a biographical sketch prepared for the TGP in 1948 (TGP Records, box 4, folder 7), a second edition was published in 1944, but no other information about the edition is available. It is likely a reference to a completely different portfolio, Méndez 25 prints.
Catalogue record number: 6