Leopoldo Méndez. Diez aguafuertes

Published 1964, Mexico City

Description:  10 etchings, loose in portfolio cover

Date: 1964

Dimensions (cm): 33.2 x 26.0 cm. (portfolio cover); 33.0 x 26.0 cm. (each plate)

Published edition: 20 numbered copies on CM Fabriano ivory wove. An unknown number of additional impressions were pulled of each individual print.

Signature and annotations: Impressions are signed in graphite, lower right, and numbered in graphite x/20 or 20/x, lower left. Portfolio covers are numbered in ink on back cover.

References: Information to be added

Contents: 

1. Capítulo I. Primeras imágenes

2. Capítulo II. La muerte entra en la casa

3. Capítulo IV. El globo

4. Capítulo V. El cometa

5. Capítulo VIII.

6. Capítulo IX. Camino a Papantla

7. Capítulo X. Muerte en el río

8. Capítulo XIII. (with a notation indicating capítulo XI that was effaced in the book)

9. Capítulo XIV. Muerte en la calle

10. Capítulo XV. Adiós a Tuxpan

Cataloging note: The contents are selected from etchings Méndez created as illustrations to precede each chapter of the memoir by Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este río (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1963).

Catalogue record number: 640