Torso
A striking lithograph by the celebrated Mexican modernist Rufino Tamayo, this work exemplifies his masterful fusion of pre-Columbian tradition and contemporary abstraction through the timeless subject of the human torso. Published by the prestigious Taller de Grafica Mexicana, this impressively rare print is numbered 50/100 in pencil by the artist, from an edition that also included just 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals. Presented in a frame, this signed work represents a distinguished example of Tamayo's graphic art.
- Medium
- signed and numbered 50/100 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Taller de Grafica Mexicana, framed.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
April 25, 2016
Spotted works by Rufino Tamayo
Artists in conversation
Diego Rivera
Mexican · b. 1886
Rivera shares Tamayo's deep integration of pre-Columbian cultural imagery with modernist figurative representation, and his printmaking and mural work similarly employs bold, confident lines to render the human form with monumental presence and warm earthy tones.
José Clemente Orozco
Mexican · b. 1883
Orozco produced powerful lithographs through the same era of Mexican modernism featuring the human figure rendered with expressive, forceful linework, and his graphic works share Tamayo's emotional intensity and commitment to figurative abstraction rooted in a distinctly Mexican visual tradition.
Wifredo Lam
Cuban · b. 1902
Lam similarly fused indigenous cultural heritage with European modernist abstraction to create figurative works where the human body is reimagined through a bold, hybrid visual language, and his prints and paintings share Tamayo's warm tonality and synthesis of tradition with contemporary form.
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