Figure on Stucco (Figura sobre estuco)

Latin American Modernism
Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Figure on Stucco (Figura sobre estuco)

Edition: 82/100

Mexico, 1976
Prints; Mixografía®
Mixografía® print on Arches paper
30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.51 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AC1997.LWN.3310)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

In 1974 Luis Remba, founder of the Taller de Gráfica Mexicana (Mexican Graphic Arts Workshop) in Mexico City, invited Rufino Tamayo to collaborate.

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In 1974 Luis Remba, founder of the Taller de Gráfica Mexicana (Mexican Graphic Arts Workshop) in Mexico City, invited Rufino Tamayo to collaborate. At the time, Tamayo was eager to find a way to incorporate more texture and volume into his prints. Remba devoted himself to finding a solution to attract Tamayo to the workshop. The result of Remba’s endeavor led to a groundbreaking printmaking technique that came to be known as Mixografia. Remba asked Tamayo to draw directly on wax plates. Remba then cast a copper plate that captured the mirror image of the wax plate and imparted texture and details. The copper plate was inked and printed to create the final image. Figure on Stucco belongs to this early period of experimentation. The new technique and careful application of ink give the effect of the figure having been carved into a stucco wall.


For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure, 2019, pp. 48–49.
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Provenance

Bernard and Edith Lewin, Rancho Mirage, California; LACMA, 1997.

Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Rachel. Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

Exhibition history

  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Pomona, CA, Millard Sheets Art Center, May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Pomona, CA, Millard Sheets Art Center, May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, November 15, 2024 - April 24, 2025
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