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Date: 1948

Medium: Linocut

Dimensions (cm.): 30.2 x 41.3

Alternate titles: Rumbo al cementerio; Hombres arrastrando un cadáver

Published edition: 

1. Portfolio Río Escondido: edition of 150 signed impressions, 50 in deluxe edition on Corsican Forros paper, 100 in regular edition on Parsons Diploma Parchment paper.Impressions from the edition are signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 6 in graphite, lower left. 

2. Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.

Contemporary publication: 

1. Titles in film, Río Escondido

2. Poster, El Gobierno del Estado de Zacatecas Presenta Exposición de Grabado del Taller de Gráfica Popular, 1958

Principal references: Academia de Artes 1819; Exposición de Homenaje 669 (illus.); Méndez INBA 118; Prignitz 718

Selected additional references (illustrated): Centro de Estudios Económicos 1981, 76; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 67; Prignitz-Poda 2018, ch. 5; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 104; Ricker 2015, 218 (in poster); Ricker 2015, 372

Selected public collections: AA; AIC; Davis; Estanquillo; IAGO; MFAH; MMA; MNCARS; MUNAE; SUL; RISD

Related prints: This is one of the ten linocuts made by Méndez for the film Río Escondido and included in the portfolio of the same name.

Obras relacionadas: Este es uno de las diez grabados realizados por Méndez para la película Río Escondido e incluidos en la carpeta del mismo nombre.

Catalogue record number: 111