RUFINO TAMAYO

Details
RUFINO TAMAYO

Venus en su Alcova

signed and dated Tamayo O-56 upper right--oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31¼in. (100 x 79.2cm.)

Painted in 1956
Provenance
Sam Newhouse, New York
Private collection, Miami
Literature
O.Paz, Tamayo en la Pintura Mexicana, Colección de Arte VI, Universidad Autónoma de México, Dirección de Publicaciones, Mexico, 1959, p.33, pl. IV (illustrated in color), p.87 (illustrated in black and white)
P. Westheim, El Arte de Rufino Tamayo, Artes de México, Año IV, May-June, 1950, no. 12 (illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Rufino Tamayo - Recent Works, Oct.-Nov., 1956, no.3
New York, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, Rufino Tamayo: Works from Six Decades, Nov.-Dec., 1993, n.11 (illustrated in color)