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PROPERTY FROM THE AARON FAMILY COLLECTION, SAN ANTONIO
Guillermo Meza (Mexican 1917-1997)
Guillermo Meza (Mexican 1917-1997)
Details
Guillermo Meza (Mexican 1917-1997)
a) Autorretrato
gouache on paper
18 x 14 7/8 in. (45.7 x 37.8 cm.)
Executed in 1940.
Provenance
Mackinley Helm collection, Brookline, Masachusettes.
Bannatyne Gallery, Venice, California.
Acquired from the above.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Modern Mexican Painters, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, 1942, p. 38, no. 21 (illustrated).
I. Rodríguez Prampolini, El Surrealismo y el arte fantástico de México, Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1983, no. 88 (illustrated).
b) El cargador
signed 'G Meza' (lower right)
gouache on paper
15 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46.5 cm.) image size
19¾ x 24 in. (50.2 x 61 cm.) paper size
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Jere Abbot, Esq., Northampton, Massachusetts.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 22 November 1989, lot 248 (illustrated).
Bannatyne Gallery, Venice, California.
Acquired from the above.
Exhibited
Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Modern Mexican Painters, 1941-1942, no. 12. This exhibition also travelled to Washington, the Phillips Memorial Gallery; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Portland, The Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Modern Mexican Painters, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, 1942, p. 37, no. 20 (illustrated).
I. Rodríguez Prampolini, El Surrealismo y el arte fantástico de México, Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,1983, no. 92 (illustrated).
Two in one lot. (2)
a) Autorretrato
gouache on paper
18 x 14 7/8 in. (45.7 x 37.8 cm.)
Executed in 1940.
Provenance
Mackinley Helm collection, Brookline, Masachusettes.
Bannatyne Gallery, Venice, California.
Acquired from the above.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Modern Mexican Painters, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, 1942, p. 38, no. 21 (illustrated).
I. Rodríguez Prampolini, El Surrealismo y el arte fantástico de México, Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1983, no. 88 (illustrated).
b) El cargador
signed 'G Meza' (lower right)
gouache on paper
15 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46.5 cm.) image size
19¾ x 24 in. (50.2 x 61 cm.) paper size
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Jere Abbot, Esq., Northampton, Massachusetts.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 22 November 1989, lot 248 (illustrated).
Bannatyne Gallery, Venice, California.
Acquired from the above.
Exhibited
Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Modern Mexican Painters, 1941-1942, no. 12. This exhibition also travelled to Washington, the Phillips Memorial Gallery; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Portland, The Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Modern Mexican Painters, Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, 1942, p. 37, no. 20 (illustrated).
I. Rodríguez Prampolini, El Surrealismo y el arte fantástico de México, Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,1983, no. 92 (illustrated).
Two in one lot. (2)