Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Mujer de Tehuantepec, 1939
signed and dated 'Tamayo 39' (lower right)
watercolor on paper laid down on paper board
16 3/4 x 13 13/16in. (42.6 x 35.1cm)
Sold for US$ 31,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • PROVENANCE:
    Collection of Wallace Stegner, California.
    Page and Lynn Stegner (by descent from the above), California.

    EXHIBITED:
    Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamayo: Veinte años de su Labor Pictórica, June-September 1948.

    LITERATURE:
    Vlady, Rufino Tamayo en Cuadernos, México City, 1960 (illustrated, unpaged).
    O. Paz, Tamayo en la Pintura Mexicana en Mexico, Novedades, 21 January 1951, no. 103, p. 1-6.

Category: Fine Art / Contemporary Art


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