Tamayo painting sets Latin American auction record

AFP
Friday, May 30, 2008 0:00 am

NEW YORK –– Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo’s oil painting “The Troubadour” sold for US$7.2

million at a New York auction, smashing the world record for Latin American art.

The 1945 painting showing a man playing a guitar sparked a feverish telephone bidding war between two people, which ended with a round of applause when the winner was announced at the Christie’s auction house on Wednesday.

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Tamayo painting sets Latin American auction record

AFPFriday, May 30, 2008 0:00 am

AFP
Friday, May 30, 2008 0:00 am