Olga Tamayo, Mexico City
President Rómulo Betancourt, Caracas gift of the artist
Private Collection, Caracas
Sale: Christie's, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 17, 1989, lot 36, illustrated in color

Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Rufino Tamayo, March-May 1977, no. 51
San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, December 1985-January 1986; Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, January-March 1986, Tamayo, n.n.
Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Contemporanéo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Rufino Tamayo, 70 años de creación, December 1987-March 1988, p. 266, illustrated in color

Carlos Somorrostro and Mariano Rivera Velázquez, Tamayo, Mexico City, 1983, illustrated in color
José Corredor-Matheos, Tamayo, New York, 1987, no. 129, illustrated in color
Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassaigne, Rufino Tamayo, Barcelona, 1995, no. 224, p. 249, illustrated in color
Xiang Xiaosheng, Tamayo, China, 1995, p. 89, illustrated in color

This work is still on its original stretcher and has received no reinforcements on the reverse. On the right side of the reverse, faint vertical stains are visible, but these do not appear to have any repercussions on the surface. The canvas has relaxed slightly in the lower right corner, which can be carefully tightened if required. The painting itself is typical of the artist's complex works, and the scraping, scratching and dullness of the finish are all original. The only possible loss is on the extreme edge of the center right, where the work may have been abraded by the frame. The condition is extremely good. (This condition report has been provided courtesy of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.)
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