Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)

Retrato de Mara Izquierdo

细节
Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Retrato de Mara Izquierdo
signed and dated 'Tamayo 36' upper right
oil on canvas
19 x 23.5/8in. (50 x 60cm.)
Painted in 1936
来源
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, Important Latin American Paintings Drawings and Sculpture, May 28, 1985, lot 51 (illustrated in color)

拍品专文

Rufino Tamayo was hired in 1929 as an instructor in the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Mexico City . It was during this period that he met Mara Izquierdo, who later became his lover. Tamayo painted several portraits of Mara and used her as model for a few of his paintings.