Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Rufino Tamayo
Pesadilla (El sonámbulo)
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Rufino Tamayo
1899 - 1991
Pesadilla (El sonámbulo)
signed Tamayo and dated O-54 (upper right)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ by 39 ⅝ in.
65.4 by 100.6 cm.
Executed in 1954.
We wish to thank Juan Carlos Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Norton Gallery and School of Art, Palm Beach
Sotheby's, New York, 23 November 1992, lot 47
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 31 May 2000, lot 36 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Mexico City, Galerías Excelsior, 30 años de pintura de Rufino Tamayo, 1954
Caracas, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Rufino Tamayo, 15 óleos, 1957, no. 8
San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in the Twentieth Century, Commemorating the 19th Anniversary of the Signing of the United Nations Charter, 1955, p. 17
Luis Islas García, "Trayectoria de Rufino Tamayo (II)," Excélsior, 14 November 1954, illustrated
Ceferino Palencia, "Treinta años de pintura de Rufino Tamayo en Novedades," México en la cultura, 14 Novmber 1954, illustrated
"Hoy se inaugura exposición pictórica de Rufino Tamayo," El Universal Diario Matutino de Caracas, 9 August 1957, illustrated
Paul Westheim, Tamayo, A Study in Esthetics, Mexico City, 1957, n.p., illustrated
Octavio Paz, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1959, no. 68, illustrated
Judith Alanís and Sofía Urrutia, Rufino Tamayo, una cronología 1899-1991, Mexico City, 1987, p. 68, illustrated
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