RUFINO TAMAYO | FIGURAS
Estimate:
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
RUFINO TAMAYO
1899 - 1991
FIGURAS
Signed Tamayo and dated O-70 (upper right)
Oil and sand on canvas
76½ by 51 in. (194.3 by 129.5 cm)
Framed: 83 by 54 in. (210.8 by 137.2 cm)
Painted in 1970.
We wish to thank Juan Carlos Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
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Luigi Bolla, Milan
Acquired from the above
Octavio Paz & Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1982, no. 125, illustrated in color p. 164
Mariano Rivera Velásquez & G. Carlos Somorrostro, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1983, n.n., illustrated in color n.p.
Octavio Paz et al., Transfiguraciones en Historia del Arte de Oaxaca: Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 1998, no. 25, illustrated in color p. 49
Elisa Ramírez Castañeda, Rufino Tamayo vuela con sus raíces, Mexico City, 1999, n.n., illustrated in color p. 17
Abraham Orozco González, Los colores de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2018, n.n., illustrated in color p. 87
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Rufino Tamayo, 1975, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue
São Paulo, XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Pavilion Bienal Cecilio Matarazzo, 1977, n.n.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, 1979, no. 87, illustrated in the catalogue
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Rufino Tamayo Setenta Años de Creación, 1987-88, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue