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Rufino Tamayo

Naturaleza muerta con niño

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Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


Naturaleza muerta con niño

signed Tamayo and dated O-46 (lower left)

oil on canvas

19 ⅝ by 23 ⅝ in.

50 by 60 cm.

Executed in 1946.


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

Perls Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Mexico (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Rufino Tamayo, "Unas palabras de Rufino Tamayo," Revista integral de arquitectura y artes plásticas, vol. 3, issue 2, Spring 1949, n.p., illustrated
Paul Westheim, Tamayo: A Study in Esthetics, Mexico City 1957, n.n., n.p., illustrated
Abraham Orozco González, Los colores de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2018, p. 64, illustrated in color
New York, Perls Galleries, 30 Major Aquisitions, 1975, no. 27, illustrated in color on the cover (titled Child with Still Life)
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo and Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Rufino Tamayo: 70 años de creación, 1987-1988, no. 80, n.p., illustrated in color
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Rufino Tamayo, 1990, no. 48
Barcelona, Palau Robert; Monterrey, Pinacoteca del Estado de Nuevo León; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, A Mèxic: homenatge de Catalunya a Mèxic: exposició, 1990-1991, no. 2
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