Two Personages Attacked by Dogs (Dos personajes atacados por perros)

Latin American Modernism
Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Two Personages Attacked by Dogs (Dos personajes atacados por perros)

Edition: 38/75

Mexico, 1983
Prints; Mixografía®
Mixografía® print on handmade paper
60 3/4 × 99 in. (154.3 × 251.46 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AC1997.LWN.3401)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

By the late 1970s, Rufino Tamayo had been working with the Mixografía printmaking technique for several years.

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By the late 1970s, Rufino Tamayo had been working with the Mixografía printmaking technique for several years. The experimental impulse to constantly rethink the limits and possibilities of printmaking drove Tamayo to consider creating a print on the scale of a mural. A print of this size would have a monumental impact. However, where a mural is typically fixed in a single location (such as a museum or other public institution), a print would be able to achieve greater circulation, with multiple impressions in an edition.

Two Personages Attacked by Dogs is Tamayo’s manifestation of this idea and a product of three years of work. The print measures just over five feet tall by eight feet wide; and represents as much an engineering feat as an artistic one. Completed in an edition of seventy-five, Two Personages Attacked by Dogs fulfilled Tamayo’s vision of disseminating a work of immense scale.


For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure, 2019, pp. 66–67.
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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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