Carlos Mérida (1891-1984)

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Description

Carlos Mérida
Motivo Guatemalteco
signed and dated 1919 lower right; also signed and titled on the reverse
38 3/4 by 28in.
(97.5 by 71.5cm)

oil on canvas

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November 19 and 20, 1991, lot 48, illustrated in color

Literature

Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Carlos Mérida, Color y Forma, Mexico City, Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura y Las Artes/INBA, Ediciones Era, 1992, n. 14, n.p., illustrated in color, p. 207
Valerie Fletcher, Ed., Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers; Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-Garciá, Wifredo Lam, Matta, Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, fig. E, p. 31, illustrated