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Rufino Tamayo

Hombre

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

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Description

Rufino Tamayo

1899 - 1991


Hombre

signed Tamayo and dated O-79 (upper left); titled and dated 1979 (on the reverse)

acrylic and sand on canvas

37 ⅜ by 51 in.

95 by 130 cm.

Executed in 1979.


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

Bernard and Edith Lewin, Beverly Hills

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acquired as a gift from the above)

Christie's, New York, 19 November 2007, lot 13 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo (and traveling), Rufino Tamayo: 70 años de creación, 1987—88, n.n., p. 287, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough Gallery, Tamayo: Recent Paintings, 1981, no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color

Bernard Lewin Galleries, ed., Addendum For Book 'Rufino Tamayo', Palm Springs, no. LI, illustrated in color

Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1982, no. 249, p. 270, illustrated in color; p. 298

Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1994, no. 249, p. 272, illustrated in color; p. 316

New York & London, Marlborough Gallery, Rufino Tamayo Recent Paintings, 1981—82, no. 2, p. 30, illustrated in color; pp. 6 and 31

Santa Ana, California, The Modern Museum of Art, Rufino Tamayo, 1987, no. 53, p. 25

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