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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Year: 1932
1932.16
Composition
1932
Oil on canvas
28 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (71.8 x 50.2 cm)
Signed lower center: J. Torres-GARCIA 32
Exhibitions
Knoedler Gallery, New York, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Latin America for the Benefit of the Bryn Mawr College Fund, April 21–May 10, 1947, no. 81, as Composition.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, January 1–July 1, 1949, ill., p. 226.
The University of Texas at Austin, The University Art Museum, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1, 1971–January 16, 1972, no. 25.
El Museo del Barrio, New York, Latin American & Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo, March 4–July 25, 2004, ill., p. 95.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 143. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Kirstein, Lincoln. The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1943, ill. p. 86, no. 266.
Cotter, Holland. "Outside In." The New York Times, March 30, 2005, ill.
Albuquerque Museum of Art. Picasso to Plensa. A Century of Art from Spain. Albuquerque: 2005-2006. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 16, fig. 5.
Record last updated October 20, 2015. 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. "Composition, 1932 (1932.16)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1126 (accessed on April 27, 2024).