La carta (version b)
Date: 1943
Medium: Block print
Dimensions (cm.): 10.6 x 9.8
Alternate titles: Noticia amarga
Published edition:
Unknown. Méndez [1947] gives number of impressions of Méndez INBA 74 as 175 approx.
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 21, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Unknown.
Principal references: Exposición de Homenaje 443 or 444, Méndez INBA 39 or 74
Selected additional references (illustrated): Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 337; Maples Arce 1970, 1970, pl. 54; Caplow 2017, 161; Prignitz-Poda 2018, ch. 3; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 72
Selected public collections: Blanton; BM; IAGO; McNay; MFAB; MFAH; MMA; MNCARS; MoMA; MUNAE; PMA; RISD
Cataloging note: Méndez made two versions of La carta. It is unknown which of the versions corresponds to each of the principal reference numbers above. This version, dated 1943 on at least one impression, is the second. The first version, dated 1941 on at least one impression, was used to publicize the first issue of Freies Deutschland / Alemania Libre, a monthly magazine published in Mexico City from 1941 to 1946 by anti-Nazi German exiles.
Nota de catalogación: Méndez realizó dos versiones de La carta. Se desconoce cuál de las versiones corresponde a cada uno de los números de referencia principales indicados anteriormente. Esta versión, fechada en 1943 en al menos un ejemplar, es la segunda. La primera version, fechada en 1941 en al menos una de los ejemplares, es la primera y se utilizó para promocionar el primer número de Freies Deutschland / Alemania Libre, una revista mensual editada en la Ciudad de México entre 1941 y 1946 por exiliados alemanes antinazis.
Catalogue record number: 505