Live Auction 3745Latin American Art
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican 1899-1991)
Lot 27

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican 1899-1991)

El suéter rosa

Closed28 May 2015

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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.

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

Specialist note

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.