Personage with Net (Personaje con red)

Art © Tamayo Heirs/ Mexico/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Personage with Net (Personaje con red)

Edition: 12/100

Mexico, 1982
Prints; Mixografía®
Mixografía® print on handmade paper
Image and Sheet: 35 x 27 1/2 in. (88.9 x 69.8 cm)
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art (AS1997.LWN.3078)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Personage with Net (Personaje con red) was printed by the Taller de Gráfica Mexicana in Mexico City.

Provenance

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

Label

In Personage with Net Rufino Tamayo used nontraditional materials to add volume and texture. A net incorporated into the print matrix creates the raised pattern.

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In Personage with Net Rufino Tamayo used nontraditional materials to add volume and texture. A net incorporated into the print matrix creates the raised pattern. This print displays the innovation of using handmade paper with the Mixografía technique: by pressing wet pulp directly into the printing plate, the artist was able to maximize the print’s three-dimensional quality.

In 1982 the Remba family of Mexico City’s Taller de Gráfica Mexicana opened the exhibition Homage to Rufino Tamayo in the new Los Angeles location of the Mixografía Workshop Gallery. The advertisement for the show described the new works as “sculptured etchings.”


From exhibition Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation, 2019–2020 (for more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in the accompanying publication, pp. 62–63)
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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