Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)

oil and sand on canvas

Collection of the artist
B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills

Knoedler Galleries, Tamayo, November 17-December 12, 1959, no. 12
Mexico City, Museo de Artes Plásticas /Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamayo en la Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México, June – August 1961, n.n.
Tokyo, Shirogane Geihin Kan Hall, Mainichi Newspaper, Tamayo, September 11 – October 6, 1963, no. 9, illustrated
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Rufino Tamayo, September, 1964, no. 18
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Rufino Tamayo, Fifty Years of his Painting, October 7, 1978 – February 17, 1979, p. 50, no. 25, illustrated

Los Angeles, Vincent Price Art Gallery, Rufino Tamayo: Paintings and Graphics from the B. Lewin Galleries, 1981, n.n., illustrated

Beverly Hills, Bernard Lewin Galleries, Rufino Tamayo, 1983, p. 51, illustrated in color

San Francisco, The Mexican Museum, Paintings and Mixographs by Rufino Tamayo, May 19 – July 10, 1983, n.n.

Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Tamayo, January – March, 1986, n.n.

Santa Ana, The Modern Museum of Art, Rufino Tamayo, September, 1987, p. 23, no. 19

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexican Masterpieces from the Collection of Bernard and Edith Lewin, November 23, 1997 – July 26, 1998, p. 111, no. 83, illustrated in color

Paul Westheim, Tamayo en la Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México: 50 Obras de Rufino Tamayo, Ed. Universidad Nacional De Mexico. Artes de México, No. 35, Vol. VI, 1961, illustrated
Arturo García Formenti, Le Monde Magique de Rufino Tamayo, Ambassade du Mexique en France, Services Culturels, Nouvelles de Mexique, No. 21, January – March, 1964

This painting is in beautiful condition. The canvas is unlined. The paint layer is clean and stable and unvarnished. Despite Tamayo's eccentric technique of scraping and scratching of the pigment, there appear to be no paint losses or restorations and the picture should be hung as is. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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