El gran recibimiento
Date: 1944
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 26.5 x 20.6
Alternate titles: Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional (Illustración de carátula)
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, cover. 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 25 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 25 in graphite, lower right corner.
Additional impressions, signed and unsigned, were printed outside the edition. Number of impressions unknown. Méndez [1947] gives number of impressions as 40 approx.
Contemporary publication: Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1931; Exposición de Homenaje 476; Méndez INBA 123; Prignitz 452; included in Prignitz 498-523
Selected additional references (illustrated): Barajas 2002, 104; Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 176; Carrillo Azpeitia 1984, pl. 58; Heller 1999, 7; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 72; Poniatowska 1963; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 80; Ricker 2015, 266
Catalogue record number: 368