ID 920923
Lot 22 | RUFINO TAMAYO (1899-1991)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Mujer tras un vidrio
signed and dated 'Tamayo O-73' (lower left)
oil on canvas
51 3/8 x 75 in. (130.4 x 190.5 cm.)
Painted in 1973.
Provenance
Galerie de France, Paris, France.
Myriam Prevot, Paris, France.
Perls Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA.
Literature
O. Paz and J. Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1982, no. 173 (illustrated, p. 203).
M. Rivera Velázquez and C. Somorrostro, Tamayo, Producciones Gráficas, Mexico City, 1983 (illustrated).
O. Paz and J. Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Ediciones Polígrafa, 2nd edition, Barcelona, 1994, no. 173 (illustrated, p. 205).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, November 1974 - February 1975, no. 70 (illustrated).
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Rufino Tamayo, March - April 1975, no. 74 (illustrated, p. 112).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Rufino Tamayo Tokyo Exhibition, April - May 1976, no. 30 (Illustrated).
São Paulo, XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, October - December 1977.
New York City, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic, May - August 1979, no. 94 (illustrated, p. 118).
San Antonio Museum of Art; Museo de Monterrey, Nuevo León, December - March 1986.
Indianapolis Museum of Art; New York, Queens Museum; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Mexico City, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo, Art of the Fantastic: Latin America 1920-1987, June 1987 - May 1988, p. 289.
Post Lot Text
We are grateful to Prof. Juan Carlos Pereda at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City for his assistance in cataloguing this work.
Artist: | Rufino Tamayo (1899 - 1991) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Mexico |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Rufino Tamayo (1899 - 1991) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Mexico |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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