Major monograph on the great Mexican artist by a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, signed by Tamayo.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $500.00
"In his native Mexico Tamayo is widely regarded as the most brilliant of that country's twentieth-century painters."
The first important study in English of the "sensuous and austere, immobile and dynamic, violent and melancholy" works of Tamayo. Genauer, a distinguished critic for the New York Herald Tribune, New York World, and Newsday, was an early champion of Chagall, Rivera, and Picasso and winner of a 1974 Pulitzer for her writing on art. A handsome copy, rare with the artist's signature.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, [1974]. 10.5'' x 11.25''. Original burgundy cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Charcoal endpapers. In original glossy pictorial dust jacket. 146 illustrations, including 54 color plates. 175, [1] pages. Signed by Tamayo on front free endpaper. Very faint touches of soil to rear jacket panel.
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