Honras fúnebres en la selva

Date: 1944

Medium: Wood engraving

Dimensions (cm.):  12.3 x 13.5

Alternate titles: Duelo en la selva; El velorio del señor ardilla; Velorio; El entierro del señor ardilla

Published edition: 

1. Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 24.  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.

2. 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 4 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 4 in graphite, lower right corner. 

3. 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: 

1. Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.

2. Tricolor no. 5 (14 octubre, 1944), p. 27

Principal references: Academia de Artes 1915; Exposición de Homenaje 465; Exposición de Homenaje 466; Méndez INBA 125; Prignitz 486; included in Prignitz 498-523

Selected additional references (illustrated): Carrillo Azpeitia 1984, pl. 61; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 84

Cataloging note: Exposición de Homenaje records two separate prints, El entierro del señor ardilla (465), and El velorio del señor ardilla (466). It is likely, but cannot be determined with certainty, that both are impressions of this print. Carrillo Azpeitia and Reyes Palma illustrate this print with the title El entierro del Sr. Ardilla.

Catalogue record number: 533