Untitled
1934
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 29.85 × 20.48 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 48.26 × 33.02 cm (19 × 13 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy
Accession Number
2016.148.36
Art Historical Context
Carlos Mérida's *Untitled* (1934) is a captivating black lithograph on laid paper, measuring 29.85 × 20.48 cm (image) on a larger 48.26 × 33.02 cm sheet. The Guatemalan modernist, who spent much of the 1920s and early 1930s in Paris amid avant-garde circles, created this intimate print during a pivotal era of artistic experimentation. Now housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Modern Prints (CG-W) through the generous gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, it exemplifies Mérida's fusion of European abstraction with Latin American vitality. Lithography, Mérida's chosen medium here, is ...