Sudor de sangre
Date: 1931
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions (cm.): 12.4 x 10.7
Alternate titles: Sor Juana Inés; Sor Juana
Published edition:
Number of impressions unknown. Méndez [1947] gives number of impressions as 3,500 approx. (likely referring to publication in El Sembrador or El Maestro Rural).
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 corner of sheet, and annotated 1, lower right. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: References have linked the image to both El Sembrador and El Maestro Rural. According to Reyes Palma 1994, the drawing was published in El Sembrador, issue not specified, 1931.
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1888; Exposición de Homenaje 393, Méndez INBA 33; included in Prignitz 402-426
Selected additional references (illustrated): Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 317; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 31
Selected public collections: AA; AIC; Blanton; BM; Estanquillo; IAGO; McNay; MFAB; MFAH; MMA; MNCARS; MoMA; MUNAE; MUNAL; PMA; RISD
Catalogue record number: 435