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Rufino Tamayo
Woman’s Torso (Torse de femme/Torso de mujer)1969

Not on view
Lithograph of a stylized nude figure with raised arms and spread thighs, rendered in salmon pink against a gray rectangle, with a mustard yellow and olive green textured border
Artist or Maker
Rufino Tamayo
Title
Woman’s Torso (Torse de femme/Torso de mujer)
Date Made
1969
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 1/4 in. (76.52 × 56.52 cm) Image: 27 3/16 × 21 1/4 in. (69 × 54 cm)
Credit Line
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number
AC1997.LWN.1665
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes

In 1948 Rufino Tamayo traveled to Paris for the first time and increasingly established himself in the French capital over the following years. There, in 1950, Tamayo returned to printmaking and especially color lithography. Later in Paris Tamayo completed a suite of lithographs titled Mujeres (Women). This collection of twenty lithographs primarily explored the stylization of the female form, with two prints featuring watermelons, a signature motif of the artist. Woman’s Torso belongs to this series. Circles for her eyes, breasts, and navel and a triangle for her nose map geometric signs onto the figure. The layering of different colored inks develops a sense of depth in the print and demonstrates Tamayo’s mastery of the medium.


For more information see the catalogue entry by Rachel Kaplan in Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure, 2019, pp. 40–41.


Part of the portfolio Mujeres (Women), Woman’s Torso (Torse de femme/Torso de mujer) was printed by the Atelier Desjobert in Paris and published by Touchstone Publishers in New York.

Provenance
Bernard and Edith Lewin, Rancho Mirage, California; LACMA, 1997.
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Rachel. Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. December 21, 2019 - July 11, 2020
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. May 3, 2024 - May 27, 2024
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. November 15, 2024–April 24, 2025
  • Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. November 15, 2024–April 24, 2025