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The Lovers
1943
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase with the aid of funds from W. W. Crocker
Lovers, probably a portrait of Rufino and Olga Tamayo, was painted around the time Olga was hospitalized at Bloomingdale, a New York sanatorium. While the female figure's head overlaps with a caged bird, suggesting her psychological inaccessibility, a large red form envelops the pair, visualizing their emotional bond. |