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From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi

Rufino Tamayo

Le Christianisme et le serpent à plume

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

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Description

From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


Le Christianisme et le serpent à plume 

signed Tamayo and dated O-57 (lower left)

gouache and brush and ink on paper 

20 ½ by 44 ⅜ in.

52 by 112.7 cm.

Executed in 1957.


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

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner
Juan Carlos Pereda, Martha Sánchez Fuentes, Sandro Landucci Lerdo de Tejada, et al., Los murales de Tamayo, Italy 1995, p. 143, illustrated (in a reproduction of the cover of a UNESCO bulletin: vol. II, issue 1, 10 January 1958)
María Elena Bermúdez Flores, Los Tamayo: un cuadro de familia, Mexico City 2012, p. 98, illustrated in a photograph