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Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Carlos Mérida

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