El rayo
Date: 1940
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions (cm.): 8.8 x 10.0
Variants: Méndez made a related lithograph and a variant of that lithograph.
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
Unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions as 30 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 16, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Unknown.
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1889; Exposición de Homenaje 425
Selected additional references (illustrated): Barajas 2002, cat. 60; Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 332; Carrillo Azpeitia 1984, pl. 67; Heller 1999, 21; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 17; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 89
Catalogue record number: 570