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Rufino Tamayo

Mexican, 1899-1991

Women of Tehuantepec — Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991). Women of Tehuantepec, 1939. Oil on canvas, 33 7/8 x 57 1/8 inches (86 x 145 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1941 (RCA1941:21). © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Women of Tehuantepec — Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991). Women of Tehuantepec, 1939. Oil on canvas, 33 7/8 x 57 1/8 inches (86 x 145 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1941 (RCA1941:21). © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Women of Tehuantepec, 1939

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oil on canvas

support: 33 7/8 x 57 1/8 inches (86.04 x 145.1 cm); framed: 36 7/16 x 59 3/4 x 3 inches (92.55 x 151.77 x 7.62 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1941

RCA1941:21

Inscriptions:

signature, dated / lower right / Tamayo 39

Provenance:

Valentine Gallery, New York, 1939-1941;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, December 31, 1941

Object Classifications:

Paintings

Oil painting

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