"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.