Art %C2%A9 Tamayo Heirs %2F Mexico %2F Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C NY
Paisaje con luna, 1977
Color Mixografia printexpand_more
Gift of Edith and Norman Garmezyexpand_more P.98.26.16
On View in Gallery 255expand_more
Tamayo was a leading 20th-century Latin American artist during the 1940s, working with Stanley Hayter at the celebrated print workshop Atelier 17, located at the time in New York City. He pursued traditional subjects in his art, typically avoiding the political content found in the work of many of his fellow Mexican artists. He produced this austere nocturnal landscape using the intaglio process of mixografia, a printing technique he helped invent. It was developed to capture textures and surface details more commonly seen in painting, collage, or bas-relief. The labor intensive process requires a high-pressure printing press to simultaneously emboss thick handmade paper and transfer one or more colors.
Details
- Title
- Paisaje con luna
- Artist Life
- 1899 - 1991
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.98.26.16
- Provenance
- Edith and Norman Garmezy, Edina, Minn.; partial interest gift to the MIA in 1998 & 2005; given in 2007.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Pereda 234
- Curator Approved
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