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.