Rufino Tamayo (Mexican 1899-1991)

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.