El cometa

Date: 1963

Medium: Etching

Dimensions (cm.): 14.3 x 10.6 (platemark; dimensions recorded by Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania)

Published edition: 

1. Plate 4 of the portfolio Diez aguafuertes, published 1964 in a signed edition of 20 on ivory wove. The portfolio contains 10 of Mendez's illustrations for A la orilla de este rio. Sheet dimensions of impressions in the edition are 33.0 x 25.0 cm. Impressions from the edition are signed in graphite, lower right, numbered in graphite, lower left. 

2. Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.

Contemporary publication: Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este rio (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1964), p. 83

Principal references: Information to be added

Selected additional references (illustrated): Maples Arce 1970, pl. 78

Selected public collections: AAM

Cataloging note:  This etching was one of  32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 5.

Related works: Méndez’s involvement with the book project yielded many illustrations as well as alternate versions, illustrations not used in the book, and sheets of proofs.

Obras relacionadas: La participación de Méndez en el proyecto del libro dio como resultado numerosas ilustraciones, así como versiones alternativas, ilustraciones no utilizadas en el libro y hojas de pruebas.

Catalogue record number: 18