El sueño de los pobres
Date: 1931
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions (cm.): 12.4 x 12.4
Alternate titles: El sueño de los hambrientos; Sueño de hambrientos
Published edition:
Number of individual impressions unknown. Méndez [1949?] gives number of impressions as 500 approx. (possibly referring to the related poster).
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 2, lower right corner of sheet. Sheet dimensions 24.4 x 19.2 cm.
Contemporary publication: Unknown. Méndez [1949?] states “se publicó en cartulina propaganda de Salubridad,” perhaps referring to this related poster.
Principal references: Academia de Artes 1861; Exposición de Homenaje 386; Méndez INBA 22; included in Prignitz 402-426
Selected additional references (illustrated): Barajas 2002, 22; Buchloh and Harewood 2022, 318; Carrillo Azpeitia 1984 , pl. 26; Centro de Estudios Económicos 1981, 73; Maples Arce 1970, pl. 8; Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 32
Catalogue record number: 42