Jacques and Natasha Gelman: Collecting Modern Mexico
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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