Preparando el festín en Animaletania
Date: 1944
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 9.5 x 13.7
Variants: Méndez signed an impression of an incompletely carved proof.
Alternate titles: Preparando la fiesta; Animaletania; Preparando el festín; La fiesta
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 37. Illustrated book published by La Estampa Mexicana and printed at the Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1944, in an edition of 1,200, 178 of which were numbered. Promotional materials stated that the images were printed from the original blocks.
Méndez 25 prints: portfolio of 25 images from Incidentes melódicos, hand-printed at the TGP on china paper, in an edition of 25 numbered portfolios, 7 unnumbered portfolios. Published by La Estampa Mexicana, 1945. This image is number 9 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 9 in graphite, lower right corner.
Numbered edition of 40.
Additional impressions, signed and unsigned, were printed outside the editions. Number of impressions unknown.
Contemporary publication:
Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1890; Exposición de Homenaje 473; Méndez INBA 131; Prignitz 472; included in Prignitz 498-523
Selected additional references (illustrated): Barajas 2002, 104; Carrillo Azpeitia 1984, pl. 63; Ricker 2015, 42
Catalogue record number: 537