El armadillo cumple con su deber
Date: 1943
Medium: Scratchboard engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 12.2 x 13.3
Alternate titles: El armadillo cumple con su tarea; Armadillo cavando la fosa
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 26. 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 5 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 5 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.
Tricolor no. 5 (14 octubre, 1944), p. 26.
Principal references: Exposición de Homenaje 463; Prignitz 467; included in Prignitz 498-523
Selected additional references (illustrated): Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 85
Selected public collections: AA; AIC; Blanton; IAGO; LOC; MoMA; MUNAE; PAM
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: 528