Mexican Mural Sells For $6.8M
America, a 13-by-15-foot allegorical mural by Rufino Tamayo, has sold for $6.8 million at Sotheby's. The mural, commissioned in 1995 by Houston's Bank of the Southwest and sold to a collector in 1993 (and on loan ever since to the Dallas Museum of Art), is one of only five such works still in private hands in the U.S. Boston Globe (AP) 11/18/08

Posted November 20, 2008 09:43 PM