El machete y el mazo
Date: 1936
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions (cm.): 13.5 x 13.8
Alternate titles: Campesino y obrero contra el fascismo; Ilustración para un corrido; El martillo y el machete
Published edition:
Unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions as 1200; that number probably refers to the volante.
Reprinted in 1943 in portfolio 25 Prints of Leopoldo Méndez: 100 impressions in numbered portfolios, 50 of them on China paper (described as “special imported chinese stock”), plus 3 impressions in unnumbered portfolios. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 13, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Volante: Corrido del comunismo mexicano, published by the Universidad Obrera, febrero de 1936.
Principal references: Méndez INBA 23
Selected additional references (illustrated): Barajas 2002, 59; Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 329; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 15; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 50
Catalogue record number: 33