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Woman with a Bird Cage
1941
oil on canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection
After seeing many of Picasso's early cubist paintings that relied on African art, Tamayo reignited his interest in pre-Columbian and Mexican folk art, including Mexican masks. In Woman with a Bird Cage, Tamayo appears to blend the toothy grin of masks from Jalisco and the segmented color fields of masks from Mexico City. He achieved great success during these years. The Art Institute of Chicago immediately acquired this painting for its prestigious Joseph Winterbotham Collection, which traditionally featured only modern European art |