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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 31, 2015 | Bonhams | Los Angeles | Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really Want) - a new auction of contemporary art | 245 | $****** - ****** | Figures dancing in the night |
Works on Paper
44 x 39.4 cm (17.32 x 15.51 in)
acrylic on amate paper
signed and dated Carlos Merida 1964 (lower center)
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles.,Anas Gallery, Miami.,
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006
Mérida won the acquisition prize at the IV Bienal de São Paulo in 1957, at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Mexico City in 1940 and III Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974. Works by the artist have been widely , including shows at the Berkeley Art Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas. Important retrospectives have been organized by the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (1981, 1992) and the Museo Metropolitano in Monterrey, Mexico (2000). Mérida's work can be found at leading institutions throughout the world including Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Art Museum; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Cleveland Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Galeria Nazionale de Arte Moderna, Rome; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museo de Arte Moderno, São Paulo
