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Property from a Private Collection

Rufino Tamayo

Apocalypse de Saint Jean (Capítulo III)

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May 14, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991

Apocalypse de Saint Jean (Capítulo III)


Signed Tamayo and dated O-60 (lower left) 

Colored pencil on paper

14⅜ by 18 in. (36.3 by 45.7 cm)

Executed in 1959. 


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

Galería Misrachi, Mexico City
Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 18, 1972, lot 8)
Private Collection, Florida (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 29, 2013, lot 92)
Acquired at the above sale
New York, The Center for Interamerican Relations, Rufino Tamayo: Works on Paper, 1979, no. 48
Juan Carlos Pereda, et.al., Rufino Tamayo, Catalogue Raisonné, Prints 1925-1991, Mexico, 2004, no. 60, lithograph of this work illustrated in color p. 80
This is the original drawing for the lithograph Capítulo III which is part of the portfolio, Apocalypse de Saint Jean, first printed in 1959. The artist post-dated this work.