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Cabez sobre fondo Rosa

Name: Cabez sobre fondo Rosa
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 81770

Rufino Tamayo

$6,500

Mexican (1899–1991)

Date: 1984
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 21/99
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona
Reference: Pereda 320

$6,500

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about Cabez sobre fondo Rosa

A Surrealist etching by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo of a simple yellow figure against a pink background, staring at the viewer with piercing white eyes.

This piece is 21 of 99 numbered editions. This piece is signed in pencil by the artist.

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About The Artist: Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. He studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and worked there until 1936 when he moved to New York, where he taught at the Dalton School and the Brooklyn Museum. He moved to Paris in 1954 and then back to his homeland ten years later. His style, while showing expressionist and semiabstract elements, is strongly indebted to native, ancient art forms. Tamayo says, with conviction, that the...

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About The Medium: Etching

The printing process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where they want a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.

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