CARLOS MÉRIDA (1891-1984)

Lot 26
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$ 120 000
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ID 1030119
Lot 26 | CARLOS MÉRIDA (1891-1984)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
CARLOS MÉRIDA (1891-1984)

Canto al Maya

signed and dated 'CARLOS MÉRIDA 1956' (lower center)

casein on polished parchment with petroplastic on panel

35 3/8 x 25 7/8 in. (89.9 x 65.7 cm.)

Painted in 1956.





Provenance

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City.

Harry Felstenstein, Jr., Minnesota.

Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco.

Private collection, Paris.

Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 November 1999, lot 53.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. Nelken, Carlos Mérida, Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1961 (illustrated on the cover).

L. Cardoza y Aragón, Carlos Mérida, color y forma, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1992, p. 209, n. 69 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Juan García Ponce: trazos y encuentros, August-October 2005.



Further details

We are grateful to Mariana Pérez Amor and Galería de Arte Mexicano for their assistance confirming the authenticity of this work.

We are grateful to Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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