Sam Newhouse, New York
Private Collection, Miami
Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints, Part I, November 16, 1994, lot 30, illustrated in color

New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Rufino Tamayo, Recent Works, October-November 1956, no. 3
New York, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, Rufino Tamyo: Works from Six Decades, November-December 1993, no. 11, illustrated in color

Paul Westheim, "El Arte de Rufino Tamayo," Artes de México, May-June 1956, illustrated in color
"Tamayo, la magia del color," Siempre!, October 10, 1956, p. 36 illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Tamayo en La Pintura Mexicana, Mexico, 1959, pl. iv, p. 33, illustrated in color, p. 87, illustrated
Xavier Moyssen, Los Grandes Maestros de la Pintura Universale. Cinco Grandes de la Pintura Mexicana, Milan, 1980, p. 136 and p. 140, discussed
Teresa Conde, Tamayo, Mexico, 1998, p. 68, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, 2003, illustrated in color

This painting has been recently lined using Beva-371 as an adhesive. The stretcher is not original. The paint layer is cleaned and stable. There is no varnish of any note applied to the surface. This work displays all of the various oddities and techniques of the artist. Under ultraviolet light, one can see a few retouches in the window frame on the left side of the composition. There are also a handful of small spots of retouching in the background around the figure's head and shoulders. In the white triangle next to the clock on the table there is a small group of retouches. The main group of retouches is in the window frame, on the right side, where paint losses have occurred. The letters in the signature and the date are undamaged, but there are a few retouches around this inscription. The instability that was addressed with these retouches is no longer an issue and the painting should be hung as is. This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.
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We wish to thank Juan Carlos𒅌 Pereda for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.