'Figura en negro' by Rufino Tamayo is an etching produced in 1980, from a hand-numbered edition. A flat, dark navy silhouette of a standing figure occupies the vertical centre of the composition, its torso rendered as a rectangular block subdivided by an X-grid of incised lines. The figure is set against a heavily textured yellow ground framed by grey zones at the sides, top corners, and base, creating a stage-like recession. Tamayo's consistent interest in simplified, monumental human forms connects this work to the pre-Columbian visual traditions he absorbed throughout his career, while the geometric torso and compressed spatial illusion reflect the Cubist influences he adapted into his own idiom. The etching's abraded, granular surface — characteristic of his approach to printmaking — gives the yellow field an almost mineral density rather than flat color.