Rufino Tamayo Catalogue Raisonné prints 1925-1991, page 215.

'Hombre' by Rufino Tamayo is a lithograph depicting a flattened, frontal figure rendered in ochre-yellow against a dense, textured charcoal ground. Arms raised wide, the form has minimal facial features — two dot eyes, a short horizontal mouth — and a vertical red-orange stripe running through its torso and legs, functioning less as garment than as structural element. Tamayo trained his practice on universal archetypes rather than political symbol-making, and this figure carries that intent: it is generic enough to be everyman, monumental enough to carry weight. The print's textured surface reflects Tamayo's sustained interest in pushing graphic media toward the tactile density more typical of paint. Rooted in the simplified, frontal forms of pre-Columbian sculpture and filtered through a Cubist economy of line, 'Hombre' is characteristic of his graphic work of this period.