$3,250
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) guoache on paper titled "Mujeres de Noche" (Women of Night) framed under plexiglass. Signed and dated "Tamayo '35" to the lower right hand corner. Gilt frame measures 20" in height by 24" in width with the sight image measuring 11-1/2" in height by 15-1/2" in width. All measurements are approximate. Comes complete with a Certificate of Authenticity from an independent appraiser who is also the artist's Godson. Rufino Tamayo(Mexican, 1899-1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico. Following the death of his parents, he moved to Mexico City and enrolled in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas at San Carlos to study art in 1917 where he was influenced by Cubism, Impressionism and Fauvism. He integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics into his early still lives and portraits of Mexican men and women. The first exhibition of Tamayo's work in the United States was held at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in 1926. In 1943 Tamayo painted his first mural in the United States at the Hillyer Art Library at Smith College. Tamayo and his wife Olga moved to Paris in 1949, and the French government named him Chevalier and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1956 and 1969.,The Rufino Tamayo Museum of International Contemporary Art opened in Mexico in 1981, and it displays many of the artist's works, as well as paintings, sculpture and drawings from his private collection. Rufino Tamayo died in
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-05-20
