El preso
Date: 1936
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions (cm.): 11.0 x 8.4
Alternate titles: Preso; Prisionero; Esperando
Published edition:
Unknown. Méndez [1947] gives number of impressions as 125 approx.
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 10, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Unknown. Méndez [1947] describes image as “Ilustración para un libro de lectura.”
Principal references: Exposición de Homenaje 425; Méndez INBA 144; included in Prignitz 402-426
Selected additional references (illustrated): Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 326; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 13
Catalogue record number: 478