Project for The Moon and Deer

Carlos Mérida. Carlos Merida. Project for The Moon and The Deer - (Proyecto para, La Luna y el Venado). Guatemala. Signed and dated 1952.

Technique: Gouache on paper.

Size: 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Framed and Acrylic Plexiglass. 

Merida is a painter and muralist originally from Guatemala who later moved to Mexico. He was born in Guatemala on December 2, 1891 and died in Mexico City on December 21, 1984. He began collaborating with Diego Rivera in 1922 and joined a group of Mexican muralists for a year. Together with Diego, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the group created a Union of Workers, Technicians, Painters and Sculptors.