Rufino Tamayo (Mexican 1899-1991)

El suéter rosa

Details

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican 1899-1991)
El suéter rosa
signed and dated 'Tamayo O-72' (upper left)
inscribed 'Hombre del sweter [sic] rosa' (on the reverse)
oil and sand on canvas
51 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (130.2 x 94.6 cm.)
Painted in 1972.

Provenance

Bernard Lewin collection, Palm Springs, California.
Private collection, Mexico.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Rufino Tamayo, Beverly Hills - Palm Springs, California, Bernard Lewin Galleries, 1983, p. 126 & 127 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Beverly Hills & Palm Springs, California, Bernard Lewin Galleries, Rufino Tamayo, 1983.
San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, Tamayo, December 1985-January 1986. This exhibition also travelled to Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Monterrey January-March 1986.
Santa Ana, California, The Modern Museum of Art, Rufino Tamayo, September 1987, no. 40.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to art historian Juan Carlos Pereda for his assistance cataloguing this work.

“Tamayo is a painter of painting, not of the metaphysics or criticism of painting […] Reality for Tamayo is corporal, visual. Yes, the world exists: we are told so by his reds and purples, the iridescence of his greys , the smudginess of charcoal…”

- Octavio Paz as quoted in O. Paz and J. Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, S.A., 1995, p. 22.

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