Woman in White (Mujer en blanco)

Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Woman in White (Mujer en blanco)

Edition: 2/75

1975
Prints; etchings
Etching
29 5/8 × 22 1/4 in. (75.2475 × 56.515 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AC1997.LWN.3368)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Woman in White (Mujer en blanco) was printed and published by Ediciones Polígrafa in Barcelona.

Provenance

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

Label

In the 1970s Rufino Tamayo underwent his period of greatest productivity and experimentation in the printmaking field.

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In the 1970s Rufino Tamayo underwent his period of greatest productivity and experimentation in the printmaking field. He first visited the Polígrafa workshop in Barcelona in 1973, returning several times over the next decade. Prints created there, such as Woman in White, are identified as etchings but in fact use a mixture of printing processes to explore different textures.

This print highlights the material quality of the ink rather than color in depicting the female figure, as well as the space around her, demonstrating Tamayo’s skillful manipulation of the medium.


From exhibition Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation, 2019–2020 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in the accompanying publication, pp. 46–47)
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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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