Dos personajes atacados por perros (Pereda 311)
1983
"Dos personajes atacados por perros" exemplifies Rufino Tamayo's modernist approach to figuration, depicting two figures under violent assault by dogs in a composition that conveys psychological turmoil through bold, expressive forms and a restrained color palette. Created as a Mixografía, a printmaking technique that Tamayo championed, the work combines the immediacy of the image with the technical sophistication of this innovative mixed media process on handmade paper. The painting reflects Tamayo's recurring interest in human vulnerability and the darker aspects of human experience, rendered with his characteristic synthesis of pre-Columbian artistic sensibilities and contemporary abstraction.
- Medium
- Mixografia® printed in colors on handmade paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Prints & Multiples
October 15, 2024
Estimate: $15,000 to $25,000
Lot 122
Spotted works by Rufino Tamayo
Artists in conversation
Francisco Goya
Spanish · b. 1746
Goya's Black Paintings and Disasters of War series share Tamayo's visceral depiction of human figures under brutal assault, conveying psychological terror through dark tonal palettes and expressive distorted forms that border on the nightmarish.
José Clemente Orozco
Mexican · b. 1883
Orozco's figurative works consistently portray human suffering and violence through bold modernist forms and a restrained yet emotionally charged color palette, closely mirroring the psychological turmoil and expressive figuration seen in this Tamayo piece.
Francis Bacon
Irish · b. 1909
Bacon's paintings of isolated and contorted human figures under physical and psychological duress share the same dark ominous mood, animal aggression, and surrealist influenced modernist figuration that defines this Tamayo composition.
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