Two Women in Regional Dress (From Trajes Regionales Mexicanos) Carlos Mérida (Guatemalan, 1891–1984)

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Two Women in Regional Dress (from Trajes Regionales Mexicanos)
Carlos Mérida (Guatemalan, 1891–1984)

This silkscreen print by Carlos Mérida depicts … Read more Two Women in Regional Dress (from Trajes Regionales Mexicanos)
Carlos Mérida (Guatemalan, 1891–1984)

This silkscreen print by Carlos Mérida depicts two women rendered in a flattened, graphic style, dressed in matching blue and red-striped rebozos (shawls) draped over blue huipiles, paired with long pleated blue skirts cinched with woven belts in red, green, and white. Their dark hair falls loosely past their shoulders, and one figure holds a red cloth or sash. Framing the composition on the right and along the bottom border is a decorative vine motif with orange, blue, and white patterned flowers, echoing folk-art embroidery patterns.
The work is part of Mérida's Trajes Regionales Mexicanos (Regional Mexican Dress) portfolio, a series of silkscreen prints created in the 1940s that documented traditional indigenous clothing from various Mexican states. Mérida was instrumental in fusing European modernist painting with Latin American themes, drawing on avant-garde influences he encountered in Paris alongside his commitment to exploring indigenous subjects — a combination clearly visible in this piece's bold color-blocked forms and folk-inspired ornamentation See less