id:			162380
accession number:	2002.86
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.86
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:47.430000

Butterflies, 1974. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991), Taller de Gráfica Mexicana. Mixograph; image and sheet: 56.2 x 76 cm (22 1/8 x 29 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward 2002.86 ©  Tamayo Heirs / Mexico / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Butterflies
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creation date:			1974
creation date earliest:		1974
creation date latest:		1974
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creditline:			Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward
copyright:			©  Tamayo Heirs / Mexico / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Mexico, 20th century
technique:	mixograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Embossing
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Pereda 169

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CREATORS

* Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899–1991)  - artist

* Taller de Gráfica Mexicana  - printer and publisher

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 56.2 x 76 cm (22 1/8 x 29 15/16 in.)
state of the work:	I/I
edition of the work: 	edition of 75

support materials:

	description:	Arches wove paper
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			* Arches
			

inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed at lower left, in pencil: 46/75; signed at lower right, in pencil: R. Tamayo
	translation:	
	remark:		

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PROVENANCE

	(Ross Widen Gallery, Cleveland, OH, sold to William E. Ward, Cleveland, OH)
	date: after 1974-1980
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	William E. Ward, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1980-2002
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2002-
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