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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 14, 2024 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo | 7 | $****** - ****** | Sketch for the top of the staircase of the Presidente Juárez apartment building | |||
Aug 25, 2023 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo | 47 | $****** - ****** | Sketch for the top of the staircase of the Presidente Juárez apartment building |
Works on Paper
35.5 x 58 cm (13.98 x 22.83 in)
Graphite pencil and colored pencils on albanene paper
Unsigned
CARLOS MÉRIDA
(Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 1891 - Mexico City, 1984)
Sketch for the top of the staircase of the Presidente Juárez apartment building, ca. 1951
Unsigned
Graphite pencil and colored pencils on albanene paper
With a certificate of opinion from the Galería de Arte Mexicano, August 2017.
Published in: MÉRIDA, Carlos. Carlos Mérida: His work in the Juárez apartment building, Movement, Death and Resurrection. ISSSTE, INBA. p. 30.
Exhibited in: "Behind the Scaffolding", an exhibition presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, from May 17 to October 9, 2022.
With a label from the Museum of Modern Art.
As it is a sketch, it presents normal conservation details due to use.
With the notes:
-Staircase 5
-Center: death of Ixtlixochitl.
-Right: Nezahualcoyotl on the mountain.
-Left: The captains train Ixtlixochitl.
The work of Carlos Mérida is described as a dance of lines and colors in which innovations are observed at a formal and material level compared to orthodox muralist work. He differed in the use of fresco and opted for the use of Venetian mosaics or enameled glass plates that are integrated with the architectural space, giving rise to the so-called plastic integration between painting and architecture as seen in the murals made for the multi-family complexes of the architect Mario Pani.
Sources consulted: CULLELL, Jon Martín. “To the rescue of Carlos Mérida, the forgotten muralist”. Mexico. El País, Art section, December 14, 2018 and NOELLE, Louise. The murals of Carlos Mérida. Report of a disaster. Mexico. Annals of the Institute of Aesthetic Research 15 (58), 1987, pp. 125-143.
35.5 x 58 cm
