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From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi

Rufino Tamayo

Luna menguante

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991

Luna menguante


signed Tamayo and dated O-56 (upper right)

oil and sand on Masonite

39 ⅜ by 31 ½ in.

100 by 80 cm.

Executed in 1956.


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

Earl Baldridge, Fort Worth (acquired directly from the artist in 1956)
Daniel B. Grossmann Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York 
Acquired from the above in 1982 by the present owner
"La otra pintura Rufino Tamayo tuvo suerte," Visión Revista Internacional, vol. 12, issue 2, 23 November 1956, p. 56, illustrated
Margarita Nelken, "De la Maduración y de la Madurez de Tamayo," Periódico Excélsior, vol. IV, issue XL, 9 September 1956, p. 3 illustrated (titled Cuarto menguante)
Octavio Paz, Tamayo en la pintura Mexicana, Mexico City 1959, no. 89, n.p., illustrated
Teresa del Conde, et al., Tamayo, Mexico City 1998, p. 65, illustrated in color
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Tamayo, 1956
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Segunda Bienal Interamericana de Mexico, 50 obras de Tamayo, 1961, no. 80
São Paulo, Pavilion Bienal de São Paulo Cecilio Matarazzo, Parque Ibirapuera, XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1977 (titled Saliendo la luna)
Holland, Michigan, Hope College, De Pree Art Center & Gallery, Art Mexico: Pre-Colombian-20th Century/ México Arte: Pre-Colombino-Siglo Veinte, 1984, no. 47, p. 29, illustrated and illustrated in color on the cover