LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

60.39 in. (153.40 cm.) (height) by 50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

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

Exhibited:

New York, Valentine Gallery, Tamayo: Recent Paintings, January 1946, no. 9. Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Tamayo: Veinte años de su labor pictórica, June- September 1948, no. 42. Venice, XXV Biennale di Venezia, June- September 1950, no. 50. Paris, Mexican Art from Pre-Columbian to the Present Day, Museé National d'Art Moderne, May- July 1952, no. 1072. This exhibition later traveled to Stockholm, Liljevalches Konsthall, September 1952 and London, The Tate Gallery, March- April 1953. Richmond, Randoph-Macon Woman's College Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, September- October 1964. Roanoke, Selections from the Randolph-Macon Woman's College Collection, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, December 1964- January 1965.

Literature:

ARTnews, '4 to Lead off '46: Rufino Tamayo at the Height of his Powers', New York, Vol. XLIV, no. 18, January 1946, p. 18 (illustrated). R. Goldwater, Tamayo, New York, 1947, no. LXVI, p. 106 (illustrated). Exhibition brochure, Tamayo: Veinte años de su labor pictórica, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1948, no. 42 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, XXV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1950, p. 361, no. 50. Exhibition catalogue, Mexican Art from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present Day, Paris, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, 1952. Subsequent exhibition catalogues for this exhibition at the Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm and the Tate Gallery, London. J. M. Moreno Galván, 'El Mito: Clave del Arte Latinoamericano' in Goya, No. 4, Madrid, January/February 1955, p. 216 (illustrated). J. M. Moreno Galván, 'La pintura de Rufino Tamayo' Goya, no. 33, Madrid, November-December 1959, p. 167 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Valentine Gallery, New York. Stephen C. Clark collection. Gift to the present owner (1949).