Rufino Tamayo

Pareja en la puerta

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991

Pareja en la puerta

signed Tamayo and dated O-76 (lower right); titled and dated 1976 (on the reverse)

oil and sand on canvas

57 ⅜ by 43 ⅜ in.

145.5 by 110 cm.

Executed in 1976.

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

Marlborough Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1978 by the present owner

Juan Acha, "El animismo cromático de Rufino Tamayo," Art International, vol. XXI, no. 5, New York, October 1977, p. 10, illustrated

Luis Suarez, "Presencia y potencia de Tamayo en Nueva York," Siempre!, 25 January 1978, n.p., illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection (and traveling), Rufino Tamayo: Fifty Years of His Painting, October 1978 - February 1979, p. 23, fig. 1, illustrated

Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas and Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Rufino Tamayo, March - May 1977, no. 61, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Rufino Tamayo: Recent Paintings, November - December 1977, no. 26, p. 34, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover

Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Rufino Tamayo, May - June 1990, no. 119, p. 311