Carlos Mérida
Guatemalan · 1891–1984 · Painter, Printmaker
Carlos Mérida was a Guatemalan artist and naturalized Mexican who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to… (Wikipedia)
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El disco negroPhillips · $81,250≈ £56,104≈ €72,448Sign up to see
Diálogo SilentePhillips · $41,250≈ £27,370≈ €32,007Sign up to see
Untitled (Frarojo)Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · $25,000≈ £15,635≈ €18,431Sign up to see
Carlos Mérida’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Carlos Mérida was a Guatemalan artist and naturalized Mexican who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works 4000m2 on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city.
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Also known as Carlos Merida, Carlos Santiago Mérida, Merida
Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.