Artist: Carlos Mérida
Date: 1930
Museum: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
Technique: Watercolor
“The folklore of my country seduced me,” Mérida declared, apropos of the ancient Maya and the continuing resonance of indigenous culture across his native Guatemala and in Mexico, his adopted home. “For art to be universal, it must first be local.”1 Mérida settled in Mexico City in 1929 after a two-year stay in Paris, and in a seminal series of Maya figures from this period his work first broached abstraction. The present
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