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Property from an Important New York Collection

Rufino Tamayo

Dos hombres en un paisaje

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


Dos hombres en un paisaje

signed Tamayo and dated O-77 (lower left); titled and dated 1978 (on the reverse)

oil and sand on canvas

38 ½ by 51 ¼ in.

98 by 130 cm.

Executed in 1977-78.

Olga Tamayo, Mexico City (acquired directly from the artist)

Marlborough Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Houston (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1985, lot 80 (consigned by the above)

Bernard and Edith Lewin, Los Angeles (acquired from the above)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acquired as a gift from the above)

Christie's, New York, 17 November 2009, lot 69 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 2017, lot 34 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, New York, 1982, no. 235, p. 257, illustrated in color

Bernard Lewin Galleries, Rufino Tamayo, Palm Springs, 1983, pp. LX-LXI, illustrated in color

Mariano Rivera Velázquez and Carlos Somorrostro, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1983, illustrated

Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1995, no. 235, p. 259, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Rufino Tamayo: Fifty Years of His Painting, 1978 - 79, no. 63, p. 79, illustrated

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Sección Anual de Invitados, Gerzso, Mérida, Tamayo, 1979, p. 144, illustrated

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, 1979, no. 112, p. 136, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Rufino Tamayo: Recent Paintings, 1979, no. 14, p. 28, illustrated in color

Santa Ana, The Museum of Modern Art, Rufino Tamayo, 1987, no. 50, p. 25

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, 1997 - 1998, no. 27