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LA OBRA GRÁFICA DE RUFINO <strong>TAMAYO</strong> 111<br />

1972. Viaja a China como invitado especial del gobierno de<br />

ese país. Recibe un homenaje como “Hijo predilecto” de<br />

Oaxaca, su estado natal.<br />

1973. La Secretaría de Educación Pública de México, a través<br />

del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, adquiere 33 obras<br />

pictóricas de Tamayo, representativas de sus diferentes<br />

épocas. Él presenta una exposición individual en las<br />

Perls Galleries de Nueva York.<br />

1974. Se inaugura en la ciudad de Oaxaca el Museo de Arte<br />

Prehispánico Rufino Tamayo, que alberga 1,300 piezas<br />

coleccionadas por el pintor. Expone individualmente<br />

30 óleos en el Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de<br />

México. En el Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de París,<br />

presenta una exposición que incluye 99 obras realizadas<br />

entre 1960 y 1974. Realiza seis litografías para el libro<br />

del premio Nobel guatemalteco Miguel Ángel Asturias,<br />

Tamayo, publicado por Edizioni d’Arte a.k.a., Roma,<br />

Italia.<br />

1975. El libro monográfico de Emily Genauer, Rufino<br />

Tamayo, publicado en 1974, gana el Premio Pulitzer.<br />

La exposición que presentara el año anterior en París,<br />

viaja al Palazzo Strozzi de Florencia, ciudad en la que se<br />

le conceden al artista el “Florín de Oro”, en el Palacio<br />

de la Signoria, y la “Placa de Plata”, en el Palacio de los<br />

Medicis.<br />

1976. Exhibe 28 pinturas en el Museo de Arte Moderno de la<br />

Ciudad de México, y 103 obras, realizadas entre 1949 y<br />

1976 (óleos y obra gráfica), en The National Museum of<br />

Modern Art de Tokio, Japón.<br />

1977. Presenta una muestra retrospectiva de pintura y gráfica,<br />

consistente en 101 obras para la inauguración del Museo<br />

de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela. Realiza el mural<br />

Eclipse total (vinílica sobre tela) para el Grupo Industrial<br />

Alfa, en la Ciudad de México. La xiv Bienal de Sao<br />

Paulo, Brasil, le rinde un homenaje continental como<br />

decano del arte latinoamericano, con la exposición de<br />

125 óleos, 60 obras gráficas y dos murales.<br />

1978. Presenta exposiciones individuales en The Phillips<br />

Collection de Washington dc, y en la Southwestr II<br />

Gallery de Dallas, Texas.<br />

1972. Tamayo travels to China as a special guest of the Chinese<br />

government, and his native state of Oaxaca names him a<br />

“Favorite Son”.<br />

1973. Mexico’s Ministry of Public Education, via the National<br />

Fine Arts Institute, buys 33 paintings representing<br />

different periods in Tamayo’s work. The artist has a solo<br />

exhibition at the Perls Galleries in New York.<br />

1974. The Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art is officially<br />

opened in the city of Oaxaca, boasting a collection<br />

of 1,300 pieces donated by the artist. The Museum of<br />

Modern Art in Mexico City shows 30 of his oil paintings<br />

and its Paris counterpart exhibits 99 of his works produced<br />

between 1960 and 1974. Tamayo publishes Los signos<br />

existen, a folder containing six lithographs published by<br />

Edizioni d’Arte a.k.a., Rome, Italy, with a preface by Nobel<br />

Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias of Guatemala.<br />

1975. Emily Genauer wins the Pulitzer Prize for Rufino Tamayo,<br />

published in 1974. The Tamayo exhibition shown<br />

the previous year in Paris travels to Florence’s Palazzo<br />

Strozzi. In Florence, the artist is presented with the Gold<br />

Florin and a Silver Plaque.<br />

1976. Mexico City’s Modern Art Museum shows 28 of his<br />

paintings, and the National Museum of Modern Art<br />

in Tokyo, Japan, presents an exhibition of 103 of his oil<br />

paintings and prints from 1949-1976.<br />

1977. A Tamayo retrospective featuring 101 of the artist’s<br />

paintings and prints opens the new Fine Arts Museum<br />

in Caracas, Venezuela. He paints the mural Eclipse total<br />

(Total Eclipse, vinyl on canvas) for Grupo Industrial Alfa,<br />

in Mexico City. The 14th Sao Paulo Biennale pays tribute<br />

to Tamayo as a doyen of Latin American art, with an exhibition<br />

of 125 of his oil paintings, 60 prints and two murals.<br />

1978. Tamayo has individual exhibitions at The Phillips Collection<br />

in Washington dc and the Southwest II Gallery<br />

in Dallas, Texas.<br />

1979. To celebrate his 80th birthday, New York’s Solomon R.<br />

Guggenheim Museum organizes a retrospective featuring<br />

114 of the artist’s oil paintings from between 1928 and<br />

1979 and three murals. The National University of Mexico<br />

awards him an Honoris Causa doctoral degree.

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