Color Mixografía on handmade paper, 1980. 902x700 mm; 35½x27½ inches (sheet), full margins. Signed and numbered 74/100 in black crayon, lower margin. Printed by Taller de Gráfica Mexicana, Mexico City. A very good impression of this large print with vibrant colors.
The current print is one of a handful of ambitious, large-scale prints, an iconic example of the Mixografía technique, invented by Luis Remba and Shaye Remba working closely with Tamayo in the 1970s and 1980s. The process involves an artist creating a model or maquette from any combination of materials (such as a monumental lithography stone) from which a sequence of plates is then cast and molded.
Tamayo (1899-1991) worked with the Rembas to develop Mixografía in order to achieve more surface texture and depth in his printed images. Tamayo achieved extraordinary painterly effects of color and texture in these printed Mixografía; he once stated, "As the number of colors we use decreases, the wealth of possibilities increases." Pereda 286.
