RUFINO TAMAYO | MADRE FELIZ

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

RUFINO TAMAYO

1899 - 1991

MADRE FELIZ

Signed Tamayo and dated 49 (upper left)

Oil on canvas

49¾ by 39¾ in.

126.4 by 101 cm

Painted in 1949.

Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, New York (acquired by 1950)

Nathan Cummings, Chicago (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 24, 1998, lot 18)

Private Collection, Mexico (and sold: Christie's, New York, May 30, 2001, lot 47)

Acquired at the above sale

Enrique Gual, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 1950, n.n., illustrated in color n.p.

Paul Westheim, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 1957, n.n., illustrated n.p.

T. Casasu, Arte de ayer y hoy, Mexico City, 1971, n.n., illustrated in color p. 34

Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Tamayo, 1948, no. 4

Mexico City, Galería Central de Arte Moderno Misrachi, Rufino Tamayo, 1949, no. 4

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Recent Works by Rufino Tamayo, 1950, no. 17

Buenos Aires, Museo de Bellas Artes, Rufino Tamayo, Pinturas y litografías, 1951, no. 19, illustrated in color in the catalogue