Art © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Hombre, luna y estrellas (Man, Moon and Stars),
1950
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican, 1899–1991
Printed by Guilde Internationale de l'Amateur de Gravures
Printed by Guilde Internationale de l'Amateur de Gravures
2003-279
Of Zapotec heritage, Tamayo used saturated colors and flattened two-dimensional figures influenced by paintings and textiles made in Oaxaca, Mexico, by descendants of this ancient civilization. He merged this approach with his fascination for distorted and flattened depictions of bodies inspired by Pablo Picasso’s work. Representing light emanating from the stars or the joining of stars into the human constructs of constellations, the lines traversing the sky imbue the figure with a sense of cosmic importance.
Information
Title
Hombre, luna y estrellas (Man, Moon and Stars)
Dates
1950
Maker
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 50.3 × 34.7 cm (19 13/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
sheet: 56.8 × 38.4 cm (22 3/8 × 15 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr
Object Number
2003-279
Place Made
Europe, France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower left: Tamayo
Inscription
in graphite, lower right: 82/200
in graphite, verso top edge along left and center: Tamayo "Personnage" no 88 de la Guilde mais provenant [?] de "Sources" [?]
in ink, verso lower left: Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. 135 [with curved line in red pencil under the numbers]
Culture
Type
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Subject
Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt, Paris and Rome (likely from the artist). Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr (by 2003); gift to Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.
Personnage #88
