About This Artwork

Rufino Tamayo
Mexican, 1899-1991

The Fruit Vendor, 1943

Gouache, over graphite, on white wove paper laid down on white wove paper
738 x 582 mm
Signed, lower right: "TAMAYO / O-43"
Bequest of Elizabeth F. Chapman, 1981.151

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Group Exhibition, Oils, Watercolors and Pastels by Nineteen Artists, October 1945, no cat.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past," September 5-November 22, 1998, cat. 225, p. 279, fig. 22; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 20, 1998-March 29, 1999.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," January 30-May 3, 2010 (no catalogue).

Publication History

Margaret Breuning, "International Group," Art Digest 20 (Oct. 1, 1945), p. 11, ill.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 96.

Ownership History

[Pierre Matisse Gallery?]. Elizabeth F. Chapman; bequeathed to the Art Institute in 1981.