Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), Mujer con rebozo (Woman with a Shawl)

Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991)
Mujer con rebozo (Woman with a Shawl)
signed and dated 'Tamayo-O-48' (upper left)
oil and pastel on masonite panel
48 x 36 in. (122 x 91 cm.)
Painted in 1948.

Pre-Lot Text
THE COLLECTION OF DRUE HEINZ
Post Lot Text
1 “I have always been figurative” stated Tamayo when interviewed by Concepción Solana for Mañana no. 1296 (June 29, 1968) reprinted in Raquel Tibol, Textos de Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural Dirección de Literatura, 1987), 97.
2 Carlos Mérida, “Un juicio sobre la pintura de Tamayo,” July 1948. Manuscript. Museo Nacional de Arte. ICAA Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Accessed February 14, 2019. My translation. http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/733466/language/en-US/Default.aspx.
3 These include the stylistically varied portraits of Peggy Schwab Muray, Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Francisco Madero, Rosalind Richards, and Louise Vauclain Pulitzer.
4 Sylvia Navarrete, “The Gelman Collection: Figurative Painting, Surrealism, and Abstract Art” in Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection (San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000), 27.
5 Mary K. Coffey, “Portrait of Rosalind Richards” in Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art (Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, 2009), 26.
6 Ibid.
7 Olivier Debroise, “Retrato de la Señora Gelman” in Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection (San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000), appendix.