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Property from a Private Collection

Rufino Tamayo

Apocalypse de Saint Jean (Capítulo III)

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October 4, 05:17 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

14 ⅜ 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)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet New York, 18 May 1972, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 29 May 2013, lot 92 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

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.