RUFINO TAMAYO | FIGURAS

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

RUFINO TAMAYO

1899 - 1991

FIGURAS

Signed Tamayo and dated O-70 (upper right)

Oil and sand on canvas

76½ by 51 in. (194.3 by 129.5 cm)

Framed: 83 by 54 in. (210.8 by 137.2 cm)

Painted in 1970.

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

Luigi Bolla, Milan

Acquired from the above

Octavio Paz & Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1982, no. 125, illustrated in color p. 164

Mariano Rivera Velásquez & G. Carlos Somorrostro, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1983, n.n., illustrated in color n.p.

Octavio Paz et al., Transfiguraciones en Historia del Arte de Oaxaca: Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 1998, no. 25, illustrated in color p. 49

Elisa Ramírez Castañeda, Rufino Tamayo vuela con sus raíces, Mexico City, 1999, n.n., illustrated in color p. 17

Abraham Orozco González, Los colores de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2018, n.n., illustrated in color p. 87