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Personaje en Fondo Negro

Name: Personaje en Fondo Negro
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 85970

Rufino Tamayo

$7,000

Mexican (1899–1991)

Date: 1976
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 16/75
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa
Reference: Pereda 204

$7,000

Unframed

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about Personaje en Fondo Negro

Discover the dramatic power of "Personaje en Fondo Negro" (Character on Black Background), an original print by Rufino Tamayo that explores the striking contrast between figure and void in Latin American Art and Surrealism.

This compelling work features a character or person with hands raised against a black background, rendered with striped patterns and silhouette effects that create a powerful sense of presence and mystery. Tamayo’s masterful use of negative space and bold graphic elements transforms the human figure into an iconic meditation on identity, gesture, and the relationship between light and darkness, making this print a captivating addition to any collection focused on Latin American Art, Surrealism, or works that explore the expressive potential of high-contrast composition.

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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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