Although a wonderful piece in itself, the drawing was created as a working drawing for a larger painting Tamayo executed the same year, in 1929..

We just received this beautiful painting by Mexican master Gerardo Murillo Cornado, also known as Dr. Atl.

Dr. Atl made his own paints called Atl Color, the formula he was quite secretive about.

The year was 1926 when Californian fresco painter and faculty member of the San Francisco Art Institute, Roy Boynton travelled to Mexico City to study under the world renowned Diego Rivera. Boynton returned to San Francisco with a number of Rivera’s paintings, and urged art patron, Albert Bender to commission Rivera to paint a fresco mural at the San Francisco Art Institute. Bender was nicknamed Albert “Medici” Bender and acted upon Boynton’s suggestion.