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Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Atlante
signed, dated and numbered 'Tamayo, 90, 3/3' (back of figure)
epoxy, pigment and marble dust on steel
Height: 83 in. (210.8 cm.)
Width: 18 in. (45.7 cm.)
Depth: 7 in. (17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1990.
Edition three of three.
Provenance
GVG Editions, Monterrey.
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York.
Property of a Private Collector; Sotheby's New York, 20 May 2002, lot 41.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Latinoamerica-España, Paris, Salon de Mars, 20 March 1990, no. 21, (another cast illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Masterpieces of Mexican Art: Ancient to Modern, Eight Monumental Sculptures by Tamayo, New York, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, 1990, no. 49 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Esculturas y mixografías de Arte Tamayo, Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts, 1991, p. 14, no. 3 (another example cast in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Rufino Tamayo Sculptures, Kruishoutem, Fondation Veranneman/Europalia Festival, 1993 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Robert Miller Gallery/Galería Ramis Barquet, Rufino Tamayo October 1997.
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