Art © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Observador de pájaros (Bird Watcher),
1950

Rufino Tamayo, Mexican, 1899–1991
Printed by Guilde Internationale de l'Amateur de Gravures

2003-278

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Title

Observador de pájaros (Bird Watcher)

Dates

1950

Maker

Rufino Tamayo

Guilde Internationale de l'Amateur de Gravures

Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

image: 32.4 × 49.7 cm (12 3/4 × 19 9/16 in.) sheet: 39 × 57 cm (15 3/8 × 22 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr

Object Number

2003-278

Place Made

Europe, France, Ile-de-France, Paris

Signatures

Signed in graphite, lower left: R Tamayo

Inscription

in graphite, lower right: Bien amicalement | R Tamayo in graphite, verso top edge along left and center: Tamayo - Paysage aztèque - no 98 de la Guilde mais provenant [?] de "Sources" [?] Exemplaire de Don - in graphite, verso lower right: Exemplaire de don | (épuise[é?]) in ink, verso lower left: Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. 137 [with curved line in red pencil under the numbers]

Culture

Mexican

Type

prints, lithographs

Techniques

lithography

Subject

birds, figures (representations), suns, landscapes (representations)

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 63 (2004): p. 101-141., p. 132

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Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991), Printed by Guilde Internationale de l'Amateur de Gravures, Observador de pájaros (Bird Watcher), 1950. Color lithograph; 32.4 × 49.7 cm (image), 39 × 57 cm (sheet). Gift of Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr (2003-278) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/42200?field_tms_obj_subjects_target_id=1395

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