Carlos Merida — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works92

Museum Acquisitions

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Mujeres de Metepec (Women of Metepec), 1922

Acquired 2023

Oil on canvas

MoMA

Mayor of Almolonga, 1916

Acquired 2022

Oil on canvas

LACMA

Untitled (Sin título), 1967

Acquired 1997

Wood and paint

LACMA

Abstract (Abstracto), 1966

Acquired 1997

Wood, Duco

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp Drawing for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp Drawing for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp drawing for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp Drawing for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp Study for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Color silkscreen

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp drawing for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Untitled (Sin título), 1933

Acquired 1997

Oil on paper

LACMA

All in Rose (Todo en rosa), 1943

Acquired 1997

Oil on canvas mounted on board

LACMA

The Oracle (El oráculo), 1944

Acquired 1997

Oil on canvas

LACMA

Geometric Forms (Cubos), 1936

Acquired 1997

Oil on canvas

LACMA

Panajachel (Structural Study for a Mural) [Panajachel (Estudio estructural para mural)], 1921

Acquired 1997

Oil on canvas

LACMA

The Judgment of Paris (El juicio de Paris), 1940

Acquired 1997

Gouach and tempera on paper

LACMA

Composition (Composición), 1935

Acquired 1997

Ink and watercolor on paper

LACMA

Pigs (Cerdos), 1932

Acquired 1997

Watercolor on paper

LACMA

Untitled (Sin título), 1927

Acquired 1997

Watercolor on paper

LACMA

Commemorative Postage Stamp Study for 19th Olympic Games, 1968

Acquired 1997

Silkscreen

LACMA

Untitled (Maquette for Juárez Multifamily Housing Project) (Sin título [Maqueta para el proyecto multifamiliar Juárez]), 1951

Acquired 1997

Mixed media

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Las Tres Doncellas, 1956

Acquired 1994

Casein on paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Untitled

Acquired 1994

Screenprint in colors, edition 18/50

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Project #2

Acquired 1993

Colored pencil and watercolor on paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Project #3

Acquired 1993

Colored pencil and gouache on paper

Previous Sales

Sotheby's

Las tres doncellas , 1956

Sotheby's

Christie's

Christie's

Florilegio de Formas, 1973

$66,000

May 2006

Christie's

El cielo de Mamom, El doble abuelo, 1963

$54,000

May 2006

Christie's

Remembranza de Haiti, 1969

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Dances of Mexico , New York, F.A.R. Publishers, Ltd., 1939

$1,314

Sep 2003

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Mujeres de Metepec (Women of Metepec)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2023 · Accession 2023.240 · Oil on canvas

Museum purchase funded by Alfred Glassell III in honor of Rusty Wortham and his twenty years of service in the Latin American Art Sub-committee

Mayor of Almolonga

Museum of Modern Art · New York City, United States · Acquired 2022 · Accession 585.2022 · Oil on canvas

Bequest of Janice H. Levin (by exchange) and gift of Ramiro Ortíz Mayorga in honor of Patricia Gurdián de Ortiz through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund

Estampas del Popol-Vuh: Plate 9

Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 1999 · Accession 1999.145.9 · color lithograph