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Artist |
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Rufino Tamayo |
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Title |
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El comedor de sandías
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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39 x 31.7 in. / 99 x 80.4 cm. |
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Year |
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1949 - |
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Description |
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oil on canvas
signed and dated O-49 upper right |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Thursday, May 29, 2008
[Lot 13]
Latin American Art
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Acquired from the artist (1951)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York (1952)
Stanley Wolf, California
Sale: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 19th and 20th Century Mexican Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, May 9, 1980, lot 68, illustrated in color
Private Collection, Monterrey
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Exhibition |
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Paris, Galerie Beaux Arts; Brussels, Palais de Beaux Arts, Tamayo, November 8, 1950-January 7, 1951, no. 8
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Tamayo Recent Works, November 19-December 15, 1951, no. 3
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Tamayo, 1952, no. 20
Houston, The Contemporary Arts Association of Houston, 1952, no. 15
Fort Worth, Forth Worth Art Museum, Tamayo, January 7-February 2, 1952, no. 15, illustrated on the cover
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Tamayo, April 4, 1983, no. 20
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Messepalast; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Imagen de México, December 5, 1987-October 30, 1988, pp. 317-318, illustrated in color
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Hechizo de Oaxaca, November, 1991-March, 1992, p. 188, illustrated in color
Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Rufino Tamayo Retrospectiva, October 9, 1993-March 21, 1994, p. 56, no. 39, illustrated in color in the catalogue and on the invitation to the opening and exhibition poster for the Nagoya City Art Museum
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Siglo XX Grandes Maestros Mexicanos: País de realidad y sueño, July, 2002-January, 2003, p. 232, no. 236, illustrated in color in the catalogue and on the invitation
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Miami, Miami Art Museum; Mexico City, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, February 17, 2007-January 21, 2008, p. 288, no. 85, illustrated in color
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Literature |
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Ceferino Palencia, "La voz mexicana en lo universal del arte de Rufino Tamayo en México en la cultura," Suplemento de Novedades, No. 125, June 24, 1949, p. 5, illustrated
Raimont Cogniat, "Rufino Tamayo, Collection Artist de ce temps," Paris, 1951, no. 2, illustrated
André Breton, Europa en Documents, No. 4, January, 4, 1951, illustrated
Paul Westheim, Tamayo: Una Investigación Estética, Mexico City, Artes de México, 1957, illustrated
Octavio Paz, "Tamayo en la Pintura Mexicana," Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Dirección General de Publicaciones, No. 6, 1959, p. 58, no. 46, illustrated
Octavio Paz, "Tamayo et la Peinture Mexicaine," Cahiers du Musée de Poche, No. 1, March, 1959, p. 88, illustrated
Katie Donovan, Watermelon Man, Great Britain, Blooxdale Books Ltd., 1993, illustrated in color on the cover
Teresa del Conde, Tamayo, Mexico, Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, Américo Editores, 1998, p. 40, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, tres ensayos: Edición conmemorativa del Centenario de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, El Colegio Nacional, 1999, p. 47, illustrated in color
Claudia Burr Muro, Yo miro, miro todo el tiempo Rufino Tamayo: basado en pinturas y textos de Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, Ediciones Tecolote, 2000, p. 26, no. 12, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, Presidencia de la República, 2003, no. 32, illustrated in color
Marta Traba, Dos Décadas Vulnerables en las Artes Plásticas Latinoamericanas, 1950-1970, Argentina, Siglo XXI Editores, 2005, discussed pp. 82-83
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