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Guillermo Meza(1917-1997)Sin título 9 7/8 x 15 7/8 in (25.3 x 40.6 cm)
14 November 2017, 17:00 EST
New YorkUS$3,000 - US$5,000
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Guillermo Meza (1917-1997)
Sin título
signed and dated 'G. MEZA/ 39' (lower right)
gouache on paper
9 7/8 x 15 7/8 in (25.3 x 40.6 cm)
Painted in 1939
signed and dated 'G. MEZA/ 39' (lower right)
gouache on paper
9 7/8 x 15 7/8 in (25.3 x 40.6 cm)
Painted in 1939
Footnotes
Provenance
Eileen Gillespie Slocum, Newport, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner.
Guillermo Meza was a Mexican artist of Tlaxcalteca heritage. His first training was with Santos Balmori in a heavily European-influenced style, but he was naturally drawn to Surrealism. On arriving in Mexico City in 1939 he asked Diego Rivera, an artist whom he greatly admired, for an apprenticeship. Rivera considered his work already so completely formed that he immediately recommended him to the Galeria de Arte Mexicano. With the gallery's patronage he was able to continue his studies and to exhibit and sell his paintings. This connection also brought him into contact with European Surrealists when they arrived in Mexico, notably Salvador Dali, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. The present work is almost certainly from the group of his earliest works exhibited and sold at the gallery.