Trembling Woman (Mujer temblorosa)

Latin American Modernism
Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Trembling Woman (Mujer temblorosa)

Edition: 49/100

Mexico, 1974
Prints; lithographs
Lithograph
29 1/2 × 21 1/4 in. (74.93 × 53.97 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AC1997.LWN.3363)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

While Rufino Tamayo admired the work and especially the technical contributions of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), he critiqued the movement for failing to build

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While Rufino Tamayo admired the work and especially the technical contributions of Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), he critiqued the movement for failing to build a connection between the work of art and the viewer. For Tamayo, it was important for works of art to be part of a shared human experience and to be understood, a quality he defined as “humanism.” In Trembling Woman Tamayo invokes Pollock’s signature drips in the lithographic medium to add an emotional or psychological element to the physical form of the figure as she starts to dematerialize into the textured splashes of ink around her.

The lower left corner of the lithograph is embossed with the logo of the Taller de Gráfica Mexicana (Mexican Graphic Arts Workshop) in Mexico City. Trembling Woman is the first print that Tamayo made at the Taller, working closely with the workshop over the next several years to explore further ways to incorporate texture and volume into printmaking.


For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure, 2019, pp. 42–43.
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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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