Rufino Tamayo

NIÑO CON PAJARO

1976

Figura de Hombre en Azul con Fondo Gris / Figure of a Man in Blue with Gray Background. Carborundum etching on paper. Hand signed lower right by Ruffino Tamayo. Hand numbered HC 3...

Carborundum etching on hand made paper. Hand signed lower front by Roberto Matta. Edition 111/125. Published by Nordstamp. Artwork is in overall excellent condition. Certificate...

This artwork titled "Nino Con Pajaros" Variant, 1976, is a color etching on Guarro paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and numbered 40/75 in black crayon by the artist. Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain. The artwork (sheet) size is 29.5 x 22 inches, framed size is 41.25 x 33.75 inches. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Pereda, plate #199 page 169. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with light beige fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo's father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually 'mestizo' - of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). He began painting at age 11. Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business. In 1917, he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics...

In 1973 Tamayo was invited by a lithograph and printmaker, to collaborate on a suite of prints at Taller de Gráfica Mexicana in Mexico City. Mixografia® was developed in direct respo...