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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Year: 1931
1931.16 (estate: 351)
Peinture constructive
1931
Oil on canvas
29 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (74.9 x 54.9 cm)
Signed upper left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated upper right: 31
Private collection
Exhibitions
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection, October 13–November 24, 1974, no. 68*, ill., p. 95 (Spanish version p. 105), Listed as number 29 in Caracas exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, January 13–February 26, 1975; Galería INC, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, August 22–September 1975.
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres García, August–October 1977, no. 2, ill.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Seis Maestros de la Pintura Uruguaya, September 15–October 15, 1987, no. 79, ill.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 75, ill., p. 117. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Antagonistic Link: Joaquín Torres-García/Theo van Doesburg, 1992, no. 92, ill., p. 155.
XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil, Joaquín Torres-García, October 12–December 10, 1994, no. 17, ill., p. 46.
The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collections, February 20–April 22, 2007. Traveled to: Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, September 12–December 8, 2007.
Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, ¿Qué es el arte moderno para ti?, February 17–May 15, 2011.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 135. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, La invención concreta: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, January 22–September 16, 2013, ill., p. 158.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, July 5–September 28, 2014, no. 2, ill., p. 75.
Published References
"Guía de Exposiciones." Clarín (Buenos Aires) (September 8, 1977), ill.
Conrad de Behar, Thelia. "New Renaissance blooms." Buenos Aires Herald, September 8, 1977, ill.
Galli, Aldo. "Panorama Semanal de Artes Plásticas." La Prensa (Buenos Aires), August 27, 1977, ill.
Brughetti, Romualdo. "Joaquín Torres-García: El hombre en el artista." Artes Plásticas (Buenos Aires), no. 18 (October 1978), ill. p. 46.
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 350, no. 185.
Garcia, Fernando. "Mario Gradowczyk sobre Torres García: 'Torres quería ser Picasso.'" El País (Montevideo), September 21, 2007, ill.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p 182, no 6.9
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 56.
Michelle Greet. Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 166, ill. p. 179.
Record last updated April 12, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Peinture constructive, 1931 (1931.16)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1039 (accessed on March 28, 2024).