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"Museo de Arte Prehispanico de Mexico" Oaxaca Poster Signed by Rufino Tomayo
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Super rare "Museo de Arte Prehispanico de Mexico" Oaxaca poster signed by Rufino Tomayo, circa 1970s. The poster is in good vintage condition mounted on board (no rip tears, pin holes or creases) with with some fading and stains (please see pictures). It is signed in the lower center in marker by Tomayo. The piece measures 18" x 27.5" and is a very hard to find poster! #2346
Rufino Tamayo was born in the city of Oaxaca in 1899, but moved to Mexico City to live with an aunt after the death of his parents. Despite being an orphan and growing up in poverty he showed a great interest in the arts, and went on to study fine art at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas.
Although Tamayo was a modernist artist he was fascinated by Mexico’s indigenous civilizations and their enduring presence in the country’s collective conscious, and he sought to portray this connection to the past in his artwork. Rather like his contemporary Diego Riviera, Tamayo used the fortune he earned from the sale of his art to obsessively collect pre-Hispanic artifacts, which served as a potent and endless source of artistic inspiration.
In the late 1970s, the enormous collection that Tamayo had assembled throughout his life began to occupy every available space of his house in Mexico City, and so it was moved to a building he had constructed in his birthplace of Oaxaca. This he opened as an ethnographic museum dedicated to the exhibition of pre-Hispanic archeology and celebrating the ancient roots of Mexican artistic expression.
Inside the museum’s galleries, displayed against richly colored backgrounds reminiscent of Tamayo’s canvases, are artifacts ranging from well-known Mesoamerican civilizations like the Mayans, Aztecs, and Olmecs, as well as those native to Oaxaca, such as the Zapotecs and Mixtec. There are also displays of fascinating ancient sculptures unearthed from the ruins of sites associated with the more obscure cultures of western and northern Mexico, such as the Capacha, Chinesca, and Purepecha.
- Creator:Rufino Tamayo (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 0.25 in (6.35 mm)
- Style:Expressionist (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:1970s
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading. The poster is in good vintage condition (no rip tears, pin holes or creases) with with some minor fading and stains (please see pictures).
- Seller Location:San Diego, CA
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