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Lot 551
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991), Diamantes (Diamonds)
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Mixograph in colors, 1977, signed in crayon lower right, numbered 30(?)/100 in crayon lower left, framed in plexiglass. Pereda 240.

Image/Sheet Size 22 1/4 x 31 1/8 in.; DOA 28 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Rougemont, NC

Leland Little Auctions is proud to offer a single-owner collection of graphic works by Rufino Tamayo (Lots 536-561) and Georges Braque (Lots 583-602), two of the most important artists of the 20th century who were instrumental in the formation of modern art. These large groupings of prints by both artists – totaling 46 works – are unprecedented in size, quality, and depth and have rarely been offered in this scale at auction.

Tamayo’s works frequently headline major Latin American Art auctions. This extensive collection of prints serves almost as a retrospective of his artistic career, spanning nearly 40 years of work and demonstrating his skillful abstraction of the form through various graphic mediums.


Small tear (1/4 in.) right edge; several faint foxing marks near lower edge; not examined out of frame.

$1,000 - 2,000