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Artist |
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Rufino Tamayo |
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America
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Medium |
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vinylite and sand on canvas |
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0 x 0 in. / 0 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1955 - |
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Description |
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vinylite and sand on canvas
signed and dated O-55 lower right |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
[Lot 12]
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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Bank of the Southwest, Houston
Sale: Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Scultpure, May 17, 1993, lot 30, illustrated in color
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Exhibition |
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Mexico City, Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, América-Exhibición Especial, December, 1955, n.n.
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 1995-2008 (on loan)
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Literature |
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"Auge del Arte del Sur: Pinturas y esculturas de la América Latina conquistan a los yanquis," Life en Español, June 18, 1956, illustrated
José Gomez Sicre, 4 Artists of the Americas: Roberto Burle-Marx, Alexander Calder, Amelia Peláez and Rufino Tamayo, Washington D.C., 1957, Pan American Union, p. 84, illustrated
Paul Westheim, Tamayo: una investigación estética, Mexico, 1957, Artes de México, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Tamayo en la Pintura Mexicana, Mexico City, 1959, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Dirección General de Publicaciones, p. 61, no. 128, illustrated in color on the frontispiece
Alma Reed, The Mexican Muralists, New York, 1960, Crown Publishers, Inc., pp. 146-147, illustrated in color
Antonio Rodríguez, Historia de la Pintura Mural Mexicana: El Hombre en llamas, London, 1970, Thames and Hudson, n.n., illustrated
Emily Genauer, Rufino Tamayo, New York, 1974, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., no. 22, illustrated
Rufino Tamayo: Myth and Magic (exhibition catalogue), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1979, discussed p. 232
Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, New York, 1982, Rizzoli, discussed p. 32
Tamayo (exhibition catalogue), Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, 1986, discussed
Hans Haufe, "Indian Heritage in Modern Mexican Painting," Images of Mexico: The Contribution of Mexico to 20th Century Art (exhibition catalogue), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Messepalast, Vienna; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, December 5, 1987-October 30, 1988, p. 82, illustrated
José Corredor-Matheos, Tamayo, New York, 1987, Rizzoli, discussed p. 29
Judith Alanís and Sofía Urrutia, Rufino Tamayo, una cronología/1899-1987, Mexico City, 1987, Editorial Esfuerzo, n.n., discussed
Ramón Favela, "Los murales de Rufino Tamayo, en los Estados Unidos," Rufino Tamayo: 70 años de creación (exhibition catalogue), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, December, 1987-March, 1988, discussed p. 68
Paul Westheim, "Rufino Tamayo: una investigación estética," Rufino Tamayo Pinturas (exhibition catalogue), Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, June 29-October 3, 1988, discussed pp. 61 and 64
Patricia C. Johnson, "'America'/Firms Plan to Remove Tamayo Mural," Houston Chronicle, October 9, 1992, discussed p. 1
Bethany Tarbell, "The Market," Art & Antiques, May, 1993, p.
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