765. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, b. 1900), "Girl with Pottery", c. 1930; graphite and colored pencil/paper, 9" x 12", signed, nicely framed. Highly important Latin American artist. Tamayo enrolled at the Academy of Art in San Carlos in 1917, but was primarily self-taught. In 1921, he was appointed head of the ethnographic drawing in the Mexican Anthropological Museum. While working on this job, Tamayo came in close contact with the indigenous tribes of Mexico, and was deeply impressed by their culture and traditions. He held his first exhibition in Mexico in 1926, and then left to work in New York, not returning until 1929. He was then given a position at the School of Fine Arts, and was commissioned to do a mural in Mexico City in 1933. He went back to New York in 1938, and remained there the better part of his career. 7000-9000

766. Harry Sternberg (American, b. 1904), "Silver Pinnacles", c. 1955; oil/masonite, with gold and silver leaf applied, 34" x 14", signed. New York City painter and printmaker. Sternberg studied at the Art Students League, and was a member of the American Art Congress. He exhibited extensively throughout the 1930s-40s, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress, Whitney Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum, and the Fogg Museum of Art (Harvard). 5000-7000

767. Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, b. 1900), "Two Figures", c. 1930; graphite and colored pencil/paper, 8" x 10", signed, nicely framed. Highly important Latin American artist. 5000-7000