Artist: Rufino Tamayo (1899 - 1991)
Nationality: Mexican
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture
Influences:


Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Rufino Tamayo Tan Nude Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Lunatic Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Profile of a Man Lithograph 1964
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Rufino Tamayo Moon and Two Figures Color lithograph circa 1950
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Rufino Tamayo Dream Figure Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Perro aullando (Howling Dog) Color lithograph 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Orange Nude Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Woman in White Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Gray Nude Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Figure in Illuminated Doorway Color lithograph circa 1960
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Rufino Tamayo Femme en Mauve Color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Olga, Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1935, Oil on canvas
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Girl (Niña), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1981, Mixografía®
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Child (Niño), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1984, Mixografía®
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Man (Hombre), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1972, Lithograph
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Girl with Hoop (Niña con aro), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1932, Oil on canvas
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Aztlan (Aztlán), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1952, Lithograph
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Airplane (Aeroplano), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1925, Oil on canvas
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Self-Portrait (Autoretrato), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1968, Oil on canvas
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Woman (Mujer), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1973, Lithograph
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Figure (Figura), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Etching
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Boy Jumping (Niño saltando), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1982, Mixografía®
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Two Figures (Dos figuras), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1976, Etching
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Monologue (Monólogo), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1974, Mixografía®
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Two Figures (Dos figuras), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1973, Lithograph
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Two Personages (Dos personajes), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Etching
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The Pumpkin (La calabaza), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1984, Etching
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Domino, Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1931, Pencil on paper
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Two Brothers (Dos hermanos), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1987, Mixografía®
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Boy with Birds (Niño con pájaros), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1976, Etching
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Shameful (Vergonzoso), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1983, Mixografía®
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Personage with Net (Personaje con red), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1982, Mixografía®
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Moon and Sun (Luna y sol), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1990, Mixografía®
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Protest (Protesta), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1983, Mixografía®
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Red Chair (La silla roja), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1983, Oil on canvas
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Young Boy (Adolescente), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1933, Pencil on paper
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Show Window (Aparador), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1968, Oil on canvas
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Untitled (Sin título), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , no date, Pencil on paper
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Woman with Hat (Mujer con sombrero), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1972, Lithograph
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Figure of a Man (Figura de hombre), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1973, Lithograph
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Standing Figure (Figura de pie), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1977, Mixografía®
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Personage with Hat (Personaje con sombrero), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Lithograph
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Man with Pipe (Hombre con pipa), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Mixografía®
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Head in Red (Cabeza en rojo), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1973, Lithograph
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Figure in Red (Figura en rojo), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1989, Mixografía®
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Hands in Red (Manos en rojo), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Etching
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Dark Man (Hombre obscuro), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1976, Lithograph
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Personage with Hat (Personaje con sombrero), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1979, Etching
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Man in Gray (Hombre en gris), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1981, Mixografía®
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Profile with Hat (Perfil con sombrero), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1982, Mixografía®
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Transparent Man (Hombre transparente), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1964, Lithograph
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Untitled (Sin título), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1931, Watercolor on paper
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Man at the Window (Hombre en la ventana), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1980, Mixografía®
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Bust in Red (Busto en rojo), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1984, Mixografía®
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Barren Landscape (Paisaje árido), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , no date, Oil on canvas
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White Nude (Desnudo blanco), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1943, Oil on canvas
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White Torso (Torso blanco), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1978, Mixografía®
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Monument to a Hero (Monumento a un héroe), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1934, Gouache on paper
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Messengers in the Wind (Mensajeras en el viento), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , 1931, Oil on canvas
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The Mandolin (La Mandolina), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, Oaxaca, 1899 - 1991) , circa 1937, Woodcut

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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Museum of Latin American Art: Rufino Tamayo Mexico
"Rufino Tamayo: The Search for the Essence" will focus on paintings, sculptures and works on paper made during the 1930s through the 1980s. "Fine art's essence arranged in a poetic milieu, within the precious limitation that encloses a piece...
San Diego Museum of Art: Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
For more than 2000 years, portraits have served many purposes in Latin America: preserving the memory of the deceased; bolstering the social standing of the aristocracy; marking the deeds of the powerful and heroic; advancing the careers of poli...
Phoenix Art Museum: Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950
Mexico and Modern Printmaking is an exciting display of nearly 150 important lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by 40 artists who came to define a new brand of Modernism, native to Mexico – such as Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo, Kahlo, Dr....
National Gallery of Australia: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
Celebrated by the Surrealists in her own lifetime, Kahlo has attained cult-like status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous love-life with husband Diego Ri...
Seattle Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
The exhibition will focus on three broad categories of works made between the mid-1910s and the mid-1960s. First, the collection includes a large number of portraits, many of which depict the Gelmans themselves, attesting to the personal relations...
Christie's Auction House: The Indestructible, Unfathomable and Timeless World of Latin American Art
The London sale will consist of eight dramatic paintings featuring the history of the Mexican Conquest, which are to be auctioned as part of Christie’s Old Master Pictures sale on December 17. Considered to be the most important Colonial paintings ev...
Phoenix Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
Jacques believed that the collector was not the owner of the work but was instead its guardian, a simple link in the human chain which allows the work to survive the long odyssey from the studio to the museum.
- Pierre Schneider ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Magician and the Mechanic: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Early Years
The prints on display are drawn from SDMA’s collection with additional works generously lent by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, all of which were donated to their respective museums by San Diego residents Martin and Enid Gleich. Curated...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The exhibition begins with a powerful Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906. Then come a variety of experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis, who represent some of the advanced artistic movements of the 1920s...
Michael Werner Gallery: Recent Paintings by Georg Baselitz
All of the works in the exhibition have direct sources in paintings the artist made as a teenager during the 1950s, and in fact certain works bear the dates ‘1953’, ‘1954’ or ‘1955’ as part of their iconography. This combination of personal histo...
Michael Werner Gallery: New Paintings by Jörg Immendorff
The iconographic language that Immendorff has cultivated throughout his career began while he was a student of Jospeh Beuys in the Sixties.  Immendorff responded to the chaos and social crises of a split Germany with a politically charged body of ...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1950 features more than 50 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by some of Mexico’s most famous artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and ...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Joaquim Chancho: Paintings and works on paper
As Assumpta Rosés observed in her catalogue essay, the work represents a “shock between the gesture of the painter and the canvas, a resistance of materials to the action, a tension between the space that contains it and the sign that emerges from...
Talwar Gallery: Ranjani Shettar: The Indian Spring
Employing organic materials invested with tradition and history, Ranjani Shettar creates multidimensional works that bring forth the metaphysical attributes of residing within a changing physical environment. She exposes the permeability of the of...
Galería Arte Moderno de Guadalajara: The Mummies of Guanajuato: A Series of Paintings
MG
began painting the mummies following a deeply moving visit to the Museo de Las Momias in December 1999. As I painted each mummy, I thought on the possibilities of their lives...who had they beenNULL A...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Vibrant Colours and the Passion of Mexican Modern Art
For the past seventy-five years, the understanding and appreciation of Mexican art have focussed primarily on the murals, particularly those by Los Tres Grandes: Diego Rivera, ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Today, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of twentieth-century Mexican art is widely regarded as the world’s most significant private holding of its kind. Dating from the 1910s to the 1990s, the 80-...
Erna Hecey Gallery at le Creux de l’enfer, Centre d'art contemporain: Lili Dujourie
The artist’s use of clay for the first time signals her interest in rethinking the question of sculpture today, after minimalism, formalism and abstraction: clay is a kind of return to the essence of things, the primal ‘stuff’ of creation, a fresh...
Museo de la Isla de Cozumel: Dulce y Amargo: Works by Jackie Sleper
Jackie Sl eper has always been fascinated by Mexico and it's artist Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a profound admiration. In 2005, she received an invitation from Matty Roca, art historian and President of the Council for Arts and Culture in Cancun...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002)
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater. Following its MOCA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academ...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Three Exhibtions Celebrate 10th Anniversary: The Arch of Desire-Women in the Marieluise Hessel Collection -- Re(f)use -- Text, Texture, Touch
The Center for Curatorial Studies was founded by Marieluise Hessel as a center for the study of late-20th-century art. It offers an innovative, interdisciplinary graduate program in curating and criticism of contemporary art. In the 10 years since...
Fraser Gallery: Photographs of Scotland
The mounted naked warrior looked behind him and examined his own smaller army, made up of both men and women tattooed in designs and symbols like the ones on his scarred body. His name was Bridei and he was the King of the Northern Picts, th...

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