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Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Rufino Tamayo

Aviación

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


Aviación

signed Tamayo and dated 38 (center right)

oil on canvas

23 ¾ by 17 ⅞ in.

60.3 by 45.4 cm.

Executed in 1938.


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

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Valentine Gallery, New York 
Private Collection (acquired circa 1964)
Christie's, New York, 5 May 1981, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Tamayo Expone diez y ocho Pinturas, 1938, no. 15 (titled Aeroplanos)
New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Rufino Tamayo, 1939, no. 12 (titled Aeroplanes)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Hechizo de Oaxaca, 1991-1992, n.n., p. 185, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo del Reflejo al Sueño 1920-1950, 1995-1996, no. 64, p. 27, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Tamayo Primeras décadas: 1920-1959, 2016, no. 11
Ceferino Palencia, "Rufino Tamayo," Ediciones de Arte S.A., vol. 24, issue 20, December 1950, p. 43, illustrated (titled Aeroplanes)
Teresa del Conde, Tamayo, Mexico City 1998, p. 150, illustrated in color
Juan Carlos Pereda, "Tamayo Pintor y Coleccionista," Equis Cultura y Scoiedad, issue 16, August 1999, p. 49, illustrated in color
Carlos Monsiváis, Luis-Martín Lozano, Antonio Saborit, et al., Frida Kahlo, Mexico City 2000, p. 71, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2003, no. 8, n.p., illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (and traveling), Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, 2007-2008, no. 50, p. 155, illustrated in color
Teresa Conde, et al., Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2011, p. 117, illustrated in color