Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Rufino Tamayo

El comensal

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


El comensal

signed Tamayo and dated 38 (lower left)

oil on canvas

23 ¾ by 17 ¾ in.

60.3 by 45.1 cm.

Executed in 1938.


We wish to thank Juan Carlos Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired by 1950)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired by 1957)

Mr. and Mrs. Maslon, Minneapolis

Christie's, New York, 18 May 1994, lot 22

Private Collection, Cuernavaca (acquired from the above)

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York

Vergel Foundation, Delaware (acquired from the above in December 2004)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Letras de México: gaceta literaria y artística, vol. II, issue 18, 15 June 1940, p. 225, illustrated

Ceferino Palencia, "Rufino Tamayo," Ediciones de Arte S.A., vol. 24, issue 20, December 1950, p. 38, illustrated

Paul Westheim, "El Arte de Tamayo: Una Investigación Estética," Artes de México, vol. IV, issue 12, May-June 1956, n.p., illustrated

Paul Westheim, Tamayo: una investigación estética, Mexico City, 1957, n.p., illustrated 

Laura Viadas, "Idea y hombre en Rufino Tamayo", Barro Sur, vol. III, issue 26, October 1999, p. 8, illustrated in color

Raquel Tibol, Nuevo Realismo y posvanguardia en las Américas, Mexico City, 2003, p. 68

Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Tamayo expone diez y ocho pinturas, 1938, no. 14 (titled Comensal)

Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Rufino Tamayo: Pinturas y Litografías, 1951, no. 3, n.p., illustrated (titled Hombre comiendo)

Houston, Museum of Fine Art, Rufino Tamayo, 1954, no. 8

Caracas, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo 15 óleos, 1957, no. 1

Mexico City, Centro Cultural | Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo del reflejo al sueño: 1920–1950, 1995-96, no. 65, p. 37, illustrated in color; p. 75

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Tamayo: su idea del hombre, 1999, no. 5, p. 39, illustrated in color; p. 39

Schwäbisch Hall, Kunsthalle Würth, Mexicanidad: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toeldo, Adolfo Riestra: Sammlung Würth und Leihgaben, 2012, p. 145, illustrated in color

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