$1,400
Carlos Merida (Mexico/Guatemala, 1891 - 1984) unframed colorful geometric abstract mixed media drawing, titled "Santi el Catrin", & signed "Carlos Merida 1971" to lower center, and having a height of 23-1/4" with width of 15-1/2". Complete with certificate of authenticity, please see photographs. In overall good condition, all measurements are approximate. Provenance: from the estate of a prominent Texas collector, known to not only to have collected quite an assortment of notable art, but to have befriended a vast majority of the artists of whose work was acquired.Born in Guatemala but spending most of his career in Mexico, Carlos Merida first established a reputation as a figurative painter beginning 1907, but in 1927, he abandoned that approach to become one of the pioneering non-figurative, geometric abstract artists in Mexico. In the 1920s, he also went through a Surrealist phase. One of his unique contributions to art in the Americas was fusing elements of that culture to what he had learned from European modernists. He also did artwork with geometric symbolism linked to the Mayan culture, and incorporated barkwood paper into his paintings. From 1908 to 1914, he was in Europe including four years in Paris, beginning 1910 where he associated with avant-garde artists including Pablo Picasso and Amadeo Modigliani. He studied with Hermengildo Anglade y Camarosa and Kees Van Dongen. His early training was at the Institute de Artes y Artesanias in Guatemala City and in Read more…
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-02-18
