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12474.
By Rufino Tamayo
1899 - 1991 |
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Description
Olmecan Baby, signed in pencil (lower right) and numbered 66/100 (lower left)
Technique
Lithograph in colors
Date Created
1976
Dimensions
80 x 60 cm
Condition
Mint
Biography
Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991). Born in Oaxaca, Mexico to a Zapotecan Indian family, Rufino Tamayo is one of the most world-renowned Mexican artists. As a boy in school, he spent most of his time drawing, which caused his aunt to withdraw him from classes and put him to work as a vendor in her fruit business. Tamayo continued to spend time at the National Museum in Mexico City, drawing archaeological treasures, especially the pre-Columbian objects, which influenced his art for the rest of his life. Tamayo believed in the universality of painting, which put him in direct opposition to the other well-known group of Mexican artists of the time: the muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros. Tamayo’s modern styles made him a object of ridicule for the muralists, who felt that painting should continue to serve revolutionary ideals. Tamayo and another artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to create a new type of printed artwork called "mixografia". This consisted of artwork printed on paper but with depth and texture. One of their most famous mixografías is entitled "Two Characters Attacked by Dogs".Tamayo left for New York, where he lived for more than ten years, teaching at the Dalton School in Manhattan and painting a huge body of work. He was also a master printmaker, even making his own paper. The color of Tamayo’s paintings is influenced by the people and art of his native land—earth-reds, dull greens, purple, and chrome yellow predominate. His subject matter is drawn from Mexican and pre-Columbian influences as well, and the influence of European artists and movements are also evident in his work. Rufino Tamayo is known for his intense and beautiful color sense. His later paintings seem to glow. Eventually, Tamayo was recognized as a great painter in his own right, even by Mexicans who had earlier rejected him. In 1981, the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in Mexico City with a handful of his own paintings and a selection of contemporary works from the collection he had made with his wife, Olga Flores. This museum joined the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic and Mexican Art, which opened in 1974 in Oaxaca with older works collected by the couple. Prizes: International Prize of the Guggenheim Foundation; First Prize: Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Olmecan Baby
Estimate: $1,400/$1,800
Location: Israel
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