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Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)

Lot 20
30.09.2022 13:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 700 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 821030
Lot 20 | Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 900 000
Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)

Retrato de Olga

signed and dated 'Tamayo O-45' (lower right)

oil on canvas

48 x 35 3/4 in. (122 x 91 cm.)

Painted in 1945.





Provenance

Valentine Gallery, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin collection, New York.

Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 16 May 1995, lot 23.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

R. Goldwater, Rufino Tamayo, New York, 1947, p.103, pl. LXI (illustrated).

O. Paz and J. Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, New York, Rizzoli International, 1982, p. 75, no. 29 (illustrated in color).

M. Rivera Velázquez and C. Somorrostro, Tamayo, Mexico City, Producciones gráficas, 1983 (illustrated).

J. Acha, Introducción a la creatividad artística, Mexico City, Editorial Trillas, April 1992, no. 29, p. 228 (illustrated in color).

O. Paz and J. Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafas S.A., 1995, p. 77, no. 29 (illustrated in color).

X. Xiang, Tamayo, Serie Arte Figurativo del Siglo XX, Editorial de Arte de Jiangxi, 1995, no. 29, p. 31 (illustrated in color).

T. del Conde eds., Tamayo, Mexico City, Grupo Financiero Bital, Américo Arte Editores, 1998 (illustrated in color).

Tamayo, "Saber ver" Segunda época año 1 num. 1, Mexico City, May/June 1999, no. 14, p. 15 (illustrated in color).

M. E. Bermúdez Flores, Los Tamayo un cuadro de familia, Mexico City, Secretaría de las Culturas y Artes del Estado de Oaxaca, 2012, p. 30 (illustrated in color).

L. Lara Elizondo, Cruce de caminos arte de México y España: Promoción de arte mexicano, Mexico City, Cualitas Compañía de Seguros, 2017 (illustrated in color).

A. Orozco Gonzalez, Los colores de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Ingersoll Rand / Trane Aire Acondicionado, 2018, p. 59 (illustrated in color)



Exhibited

New York, Valentine Gallery, Recent Tamayo Paintings, January 1946, no. 1.

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas - Salón Nacional, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamayo, 20 años de su labor pictórica, June 1948, no. 39 (illustrated).

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Art Mexicain du Precolombien à nos Jours, May - June 1952, vol. II, no. 1073.

Stockholm, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Mexikansk Konst fron Forntid till Nertid, September 1952, no. 1058, p. 90 (illustrated).

New York, The Knoedler Gallery For the Benefit of the Hospitalized Veterans Service of the Musicians, The Collin Collection

London, The Tate Gallery, Exhibition of Mexican Art from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present Day, March-April 1953, no. 1050.

New York, M.Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection, April - May 1960, no. 90 (illustrated). 12 April - 14 May 1960 (illustrated).

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Rufino Tamayo - Inaugural Exhibition, September - December 1964.

São Paulo, Pavilion Bienal de Sao Paulo Cecilio Matarazzo, Parque Ibirapuera Comisariada por Fernando Gamboa, Rufino Tamayo en la XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, 1977.

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, 1979, p. 60, no. 35 (illustrated).

Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Rufino Tamayo 70 Años de Creación, December 1987- March 1988, (illustrated in color).



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We are grateful to art historian Juan Carlos Pereda for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist:Rufino Tamayo (1899 - 1991)
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Mexico
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