Recuerdo de las cosas de la juventud 1
Date: 1944
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 20.6 x 7.3
Alternate titles: Recuerdo de cosas de juventud; Recuerdos de la juventud; Dios del agua
Published edition:
Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 42. 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 11 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 11 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: Academia de Artes 1856? (“Recuerdos de Juventud”); Exposición de Homenaje 475? (“Recuerdos de Juventud”); Méndez INBA 139? (“Recuerdos de la Juventud”); Prignitz 475; included in Prignitz 498-523
Selected additional references (illustrated): Poniatowska 1963
Catalogue record number: 539