Description
Latin lovers return to Christie's saleroom to bid on a wide selection of works from the 19th century to the present. One of the highlights is Rufino Tamayo's Bailarinas (Dancers), a work not only integrating elements from pre-Colombian sculpture, popular Mexican art and the European avant-garde but also showing the artist as an skillful colorist. The dynamic contrast of shapes of reds, blues and blacks draws the viewer's attention to the figures dancing in what looks like a three-dimensional space. Diego Rivera's Mujer indigena con elotes (Indian Woman with Corn), also offered in the sale, was created upon the artist's stay in Mexico following 14 years in Europe. The work illustrates the pinnacle of the artist's explorations of his native culture into a conceptual language and a new aesthetic shaped by trips to the Yucatan Peninsula and Oaxaca. Also for sale is Valle de M?xico by American born Conrad Wise Chapman. Commissioned by English engineer and industrialist W.R. Jolly, the painting of his tile factory and the surrounding landscape is a memento of his stay in M?xico. Other Latin American masters represented in the sale include Antonio Berni (Argentina, 1905-1981); Fernando Botero (Colombia, b. 1932); Wifredo Lam (Cuba, 1902-1982); Matta (Chile, b. 1911); Armando Rever
