Rufino Tamayo Paintings
Mexican, 1899-1991
Rufino Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1899 to parents Manuel Arellanes and Florentina Tamayo. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. Although Tamayo studied drawing at the Academy of Art at San Carlos as a young adult, he became dissatisfied and eventually decided to study on his own.
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Artist: Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo Lithograph "The Red Horse of The Apocalypse" Mexico 1959
By Rufino Tamayo
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Rufino Tamayo
(Mexican, 1899-1991)
'The Red Horse of the Apocalypse' from the
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Series.
Commissioned by Issac-Louis Lemaistre De Sacy as illustratio...
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Mid-20th Century Rufino Tamayo Paintings
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Paper
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