Danza de la muerte 1
Date: 1943 or 1944
Medium: Scratchboard engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 20.1 x 14.1
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 43. 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 12 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 12 in graphite, lower right corner.
Additional impressions, signed and unsigned, were printed outside the edition. Number of impressions unknown.
Contemporary publication: Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.
Principal references: Méndez INBA 120?; Prignitz 476; included in Prignitz 498-523
Selected additional references (illustrated): Caplow 2017, fig. 6.27; Caplow 2017, p. 182
Selected public collections: AA; AIC; Blanton; LOC; MoMA; MUNAE; PAM
Cataloging note: Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar used Méndez’s image as the basis for a poster announcing an exhibition of prints from the TGP at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña in San Juan, P.R. in 1958.
Related works: Méndez made numerous illustrations for Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional and in addition, created several related illustrations that were not used in the book.
Obras relacionadas: Méndez realizó numerosas ilustraciones para Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional y además, creó algunas ilustraciones relacionadas que no se utilizaron en el libro.
Catalogue record number: 524