Rufino Tamayo Abstract Prints

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991). Deux Tetes, from Mujeres Suite (P. 107), 1969. Lithograph in colors on wove paper  Signed in pencil and numbered 27/150 (there was also an edition...

"Personaje en un Cueva" (Personage in a Cave) Surrealist Lithograph by Rufino Tamayo (b. 1899 d. 1991.) Abstract figurative lithograph featuring a textured background and bold figur...

"Venus Noire" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat in a gold and black frame u...

Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) SANDÍA #2 "Watermelon" Color lithograph, 1969, on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil, from Mujeres, printed by Atelier Desjobert, Paris, published by Touchs...

A very good impression of this scarce color aquatint and etching. Signed and numbered 84/99 in white crayon by Tamayo. Printed and published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From "Rufino Tam...

Mixografia “Man in Black” by well-known Mexico artist Rufino Tamayo (1891-1991). Signed “R. Tamayo” in pencil lower right. Numbered in pencil “60/140" lower left. In excellent unfram...

Here we have an Original Pencil Signed and Numbered Lithograph by Rufino Tamayo, famous Mexican American Artist…. known for abstract Figurative Expressionist images There was only a...

A very good impression of this color aquatint and etching with strong colors. Signed and numbered 59/75 in black crayon by Tamayo. Published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From "Rufino Tam...

"Femme Au Collant Rose" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat in a gold and bla...

"Cabeza en Gris" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat with a silver liner and ...

"Manos en Rojo" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 22x30 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat in a silver and black fr...

Rufino Tamayo, Mexican (1899 - 1991) - Capitulo XXI, Portfolio: Apocalypse de Saint Jean, Year: 1959, Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives, Edition: 93/255, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25....

Abstract surrealist lithograph of a dog wounded by an arrow. This work is from his 90th anniversary suite, the last prints Tamayo completed, before passing on. Signed and editioned a...

"Torso" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction Mixographia limited edition measuring 34X26 in. The piece is mounted onto a piece of black board and floated between two pieces o...

"Hombre Blanco" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction mixografia in color limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with...

A very good impression of this large, color Mixografía print on handmade paper. Signed and numbered 20/100 in pencil. Printed and published by Taller de Gráfica Mexicana, Mexico City...

"Dos Personajes Atacado Per Perros" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction Mixographia on amate paper measuring 61x98 in. The piece is sandwiched between two pieces of plexigla...

"Dos Figuras en Ochre" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction Mixographia limited edition measuring 22x24 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white matt and gold frame ....

"Torre Blanca" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction etching limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white matt and light silver frame. Rufi...

"Observador de Pajaros" 1950 By. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) Edition 83/200 Lower Right Signed Lower Left Unframed: 15.5" x 22.5" Framed: 21.75" x 28.25" Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899- June 24, 1991) 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 into his early still lives and portraits of Mexican men and women. In the early 1920s he also taught art classes in Mexico City's public schools. Despite his involvement in Mexican history, he did not subscribe to the idea of art as nationalistic propaganda. Modern Mexican art at that time was dominated by 'The Three Great Ones' : Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueros, but Tamayo began to be noted as someone 'new' and different' for his blending of the aesthetics of post Revolutionary Mexico with the vanguard artists of Europe and the United States. After the Mexican Revolution, he focused on creating his own identity in his work, expressing what he thought was the traditional Mexico, and refusing to follow the political trends of his contemporary artists. This caused some to see him as a 'traitor' to the political cause, and he felt it difficult to freely express himself in his art. As a result, he decided to leave Mexico in 1926 and move to New York, along with his friend, the composer Carlos Chavez. The first exhibition of Tamayo's work in the United States was held at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in that same year. The show was successful, and Tamayo was praised for his 'authentic' status as a Mexican of 'indigenous heritage', and for his internationally appealing Modernist aesthetic. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Throughout the late thirties and early forties New York's Valentine Gallery gave him shows. For nine years, beginning in 1938, he taught at the Dalton School in New York. In 1929, some health problems led him to return to Mexico for treatment. While there he took a series of teaching jobs. During this period he became romantically involved with the artist Maria...