Méndez 25 prints

Published 1945, La Estampa Mexicana, Mexico City

Description: 25 loose plates in portfolio cover (linocut and type on off-white cloth). Plates are hand-pulled impressions of images (wood engravings, linocuts, and scratchboard engravings) from the book Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional.

Date: 1945

Dimensions: 33.8 × 27.9 cm. (portfolio cover); 24.8 × 17.5 cm (each plate) 

Published edition: 25, plus 7 unnumbered copies. An unknown number of additional impressions  were printed of each image on a variety of papers and sheet sizes. An unknown number of additional impressions of the portfolio cover were printed on paper, with and without color. 

Signature and annotations: Impressions are signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated in graphite with the number in the series, lower right corner of sheet. 

References: Prignitz 498-523

Cataloging note: Dimensions are taken from Art Institute of Chicago website.

Contents:

1. Serpiente

2. El amigo jabolí (El decano jabolí)

3. Armadillo

4. Honras fúnebres en la selva

5. El armadillo cumple con su deber

6. Responso de Doña Caracol

7. El zopilote espera comerse los despojos

8. Vuelo para conquistar el mundo

9. Preparando el festín en Animaletania

10. Polen

11. Recuerdo de las cosas de la juventud I

12. La danza de la muerte I 

13. Danza al pie del ciruelo

14. Sol, arcoiris, y danzantes

15. La piel del tigre

16. Recuerdo de las cosas de la juventud II

17. La danza de la muerte II

18. Brincos del zopilote

19. Zopilote vanidoso

20. Los tejones políticos

21. El alcalde habla

22. La venganza

23. El nuevo canto

24. El fin del zopilote

25. El gran recibimiento

26. Portfolio cover

Catalogue record number: 309