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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 522 | $****** - ****** | Cinco paneles | |||
Nov 20, 1989 | Sotheby's | New York | Latin American Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 50 | Estimates not disclosed | Five panels |
Works on Paper
131.4 x 27 cm (51.75 x 10.63 in)
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signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower right); signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower right); signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left); signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left); signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left)
Private Collection, Mexico City
Sotheby"s, New York, 20 November 1989, lot 50 (consigned by the above)
Natasha Gelman, Mexico City (acquired at the above sale)
Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Carlos Mérida: Retrospectiva , 1958
Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, La colección de pintura Mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman , 1992, no. 59, pp. 103-04, illustrated in color
Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Peinture moderne au Mexique-Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman , 1999, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color
San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2000-01, no. 60, p. 112, illustrated in color; p. 197
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2001-02, p. 61, illustrated in color; p. 88
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection , 2002
Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
Carlos Mérida
1891 - 1984
Cinco paneles
(i)
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower right)
gouache and pencil on incised board mounted on panel
51 ¾ by 10 ⅝ in. 131.4 by 27 cm.
Executed in 1963.
(ii)
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower right)
gouache and pencil on incised board mounted on panel
51 ⅝ by 10 ⅜ in. 131.1 by 26.3 cm.
Executed in 1963.
(iii)
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left)
gouache and pencil on incised board mounted on panel
51 ¾ by 10 ⅜ in. 131.4 by 26.3 cm.
Executed in 1963.
(iv)
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left)
gouache and charcoal on incised board mounted on panel
51 ⅝ by 10 ¼ in. 131.1 by 26 cm.
Executed in 1963.
(v)
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1963 (lower left)
gouache, pencil and aluminum foil on incised board mounted on panel
51 ¾ by 10 ⅜ in. 131.4 by 26.3 cm.
Executed in 1963.
