Emily Genauer

Major monograph on the great Mexican artist by a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, signed by Tamayo.

• Emily Genauer (American).
• Rufino Tamayo (Mexican).
• New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1974].
• 175, [1] pages.
• 146 illustrations, including 54 color plates.
• Signed by Tamayo on front free endpaper.
• Bound in original burgundy cloth with gilt-lettered spine, charcoal endpapers, in original glossy pictorial dust jacket.

The first important study in English of the “sensuous and austere, immobile and dynamic, violent and melancholy” works of Tamayo. Genauer, a distinguished critic for the New York Herald Tribune, New York World, and Newsday, was an early champion of Chagall, Rivera, and Picasso and winner of a 1974 Pulitzer for her writing on art. A handsome copy, rare with the artist’s signature.