Two Figures

Carlos Mérida, Guatemalan (active in Mexico), 1891 - 1985

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1932

Gouache on paper

Sheet: 16 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (42.9 × 27.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

W.935.1.48

Geography

Place Made: Guatemala, Central America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Singed and dated, lower left to center: Carlos / Merida / 1932

Exhibition History

Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2018, Carlos Merida, From Mexico to Montmartre: 1912-1943, Marie-Therese (Motti) Cummings, Class of 2018, Levinson Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.mcummings.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

Provenance

Mrs. Frances Flynn Paine (1895-1980); sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, August 18, 1932; given to present collection, 1935.

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