![Rufino Tamayo - La Familia [1987]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5647/21607479082_6502f6eb6f_o.jpg)
La Familia is Rufino Tamayo’s last and definitive version of this endearing motif. Painted in 1987, it is also widely respected as one of the artist’s most accomplished compositions from the last decade of his sixty-year career. According to famed art historian Edward Sullivan, La Familia is "one of the most important paintings of Tamayo’s later production; a highly structured composition in forms and colour.” In his 1990 essay published in the exhibition catalogue Tamayo (1899 - 1991) at the Marlborough Gallery, he describes the picture as being imbued with both a visual simplicity and tender affection: “the mother’s arm grasps that of the father while they are beheld by a child looking adoringly at her parents from below."
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil and sand on canvas, 124 x 180 cm]