La carta (2)
Date: 1943
Medium: Block print
Dimensions (cm.): 10.6 x 9.8
Alternate titles: Noticia amarga
Published edition:
Unknown. Méndez [1949?] 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, Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 72
Cataloging note: Méndez made two versions of La carta. It is unknown which of the versions corresponds to each of the 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.
Catalogue record number: 505