La España de Franco

Published 1938, Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City

Description: 15 lithographs by Raúl Anguiano, Luis Arenal, Xavier Guerrero, and Leopoldo Méndez of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, captioned and with a brief text in a in staple-bound booklet. Number of impressions unknown. According to Prignitz 1983, there were signed 19 copies. Mendez contributed three lithographs.

Date: 1938

Dimensions: 32.8 x 23.7 (portfolio). See below for image dimensions.

Published edition: Number of impressions unknown. According to Prignitz 1992, there were signed 19 copies.

Signature and annotations: Plates contain facsimile signatures, lower right. Carrusel also contains date, lower right, and facsimile dedication, lower left.

References: Prignitz 359-373 

Contents: (includes the following three prints by Méndez):

   1. Franco, hombre de honor, jura defender la República (Prignitz 366), 31.9 x 23.4 cm.

   8. La “toma” de Madrid (Prignitz 359), 26.3 x 46.5 cm.

   15. Aprende, América. ¡El Fascismo amenaza a los paises américanos! (Prignitz 373), 31.9 x 23.4 cm.

Cataloging note: Nos. 1 and 15 are actually two halves of a single image, printed on one sheet but separated in the booklet by intervening pages.

Catalogue record number: 927