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Rufino Tamayo – Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa
Rufino Tamayo, Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa is an Original Etching on Guarro paper. This print is from the signed and numbered limited edition of 99, signed and numbered in crayon. From the series “Rufino Tamayo 8 Aguafuertes 1984.” Published by Poligrafa, Barcelona. P320.
Most of Rufino Tamayo’s original prints are extremely simple yet highly inventive in their technicality. Tamayo was known for taking an elementary drawing and filling it with structural elements, textures and colors obtaining striking etchings, lithographs and mixographs created with eloquent and economical expression.
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter and printmaker known for his large-scale murals and vivid use of color. Like Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, Tamayo helped garner international attention for Mexican art. Influenced by his pre-Columbian heritage as well as Cubism and Surrealism, Tamayo portrayed vernacular subjects like watermelons and animals in a unique formal vocabulary. “Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere,” he stated. “It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.”
| Title | Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa |
|---|---|
| Alt. Title | Head on Pink Background |
| Medium | Etching |
| Year | 1984 |
| Edition | 99 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Pereda 320 |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 30 x 21.75 (in) 76 x 55.5 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
Category: Rufino Tamayo
Description
Rufino Tamayo, Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa is an Original Etching on Guarro paper. This print is from the signed and numbered limited edition of 99, signed and numbered in crayon. From the series “Rufino Tamayo 8 Aguafuertes 1984.” Published by Poligrafa, Barcelona. P320.
Most of Rufino Tamayo’s original prints are extremely simple yet highly inventive in their technicality. Tamayo was known for taking an elementary drawing and filling it with structural elements, textures and colors obtaining striking etchings, lithographs and mixographs created with eloquent and economical expression.
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter and printmaker known for his large-scale murals and vivid use of color. Like Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, Tamayo helped garner international attention for Mexican art. Influenced by his pre-Columbian heritage as well as Cubism and Surrealism, Tamayo portrayed vernacular subjects like watermelons and animals in a unique formal vocabulary.
“Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere,” he stated. “It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.” Born on August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico, Tamayo left the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts after a year and began to teach himself. He moved to New York in the 1930s after having a falling out with the politically driven Rivera and Siqueiros in his home county. Eventually returning to Mexico in 1959, he founded the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in his birthplace of Oaxaca during the early 1980s.
The artist continued to produce some of his most compelling works including Moon and Sun (1990) right up until his death on June 24, 1991 in Mexico City, Mexico at the age of 91. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.
Rufino Tamayo, Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa
Additional information
| Title | Cabeza Sobre Fondo Rosa |
|---|---|
| Alt. Title | Head on Pink Background |
| Medium | Etching |
| Year | 1984 |
| Edition | 99 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Pereda 320 |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 30 x 21.75 (in) 76 x 55.5 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
