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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
Fiesta de pájaros
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
Carlos Mérida
1891 - 1984
Fiesta de pájaros
signed Carlos Mérida and dated 1959 (lower right)
petroplastic on panel
19 ⅝ by 15 in.
50 by 40 cm.
Executed in 1959.
Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City
Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired by descent from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, La colección de pintura Mexicana de Jacques y Natasha Gelman, 1992, no. 57, pp. 100-01, illustrated in color
Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Peinture moderne au Mexique-Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman, 1999, pp. 74-75, 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. 57, pp. 109 and 197, illustrated in color
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2001-02, pp. 60 and 88, illustrated in color
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 2002
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