Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Rufino Tamayo
Retrato de la señora Mercedes Ballesteros de Antuñano
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Rufino Tamayo
1899 - 1991
Retrato de la señora Mercedes Ballesteros de Antuñano
signed Tamayo and dated O-61 (upper right)
charcoal, oil and sanguine on gessoed Masonite
39 1/4 by 31 7/8 in.
99.7 by 81 cm.
Executed in 1961.
We wish to thank Juan Carlos Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
Mercedes Ballesteros & Alfonso de Antuñano, Mexico City
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 19 May 1987, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Galería Árvil, Mexico City (acquired at the above sale)
The Window South Collection, Menlo Park
CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989
Private Collection, Mexico City (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, 19 May 1987, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Galería Árvil, Mexico City (acquired at the above sale)
The Window South Collection, Menlo Park
CDS Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, El retrato contemporáneo mexicano, 1961, no. 51
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienne, Messepalast; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Imagen de México, 1987-88, no. 193, p. 323, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., Mexican Cultural Institute, Un Panorama del arte mexicano, 1990
New York, CDS Gallery & Galería Árvil, Mexican Masters, 1990, no. 25, p. 28, illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 52, pp. 141 & 246, illustrated in color
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienne, Messepalast; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Imagen de México, 1987-88, no. 193, p. 323, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., Mexican Cultural Institute, Un Panorama del arte mexicano, 1990
New York, CDS Gallery & Galería Árvil, Mexican Masters, 1990, no. 25, p. 28, illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, no. 52, pp. 141 & 246, illustrated in color