Chronology: Documentary Materials

The artist's Paris studio was located Rue Marcel Sembat

The artist's Paris studio was located Rue Marcel Sembat

Torres-Garcia in his Montevideo studio c.1939

Torres-García painting in his studio, 1938.

Torres-García at the Academy in Barcelona, c. 1893-1894.

Torres-García, c. 1900.

Torres-García with pipe, c. 1903.

Torres-García in Antoni Gaudí's studio at the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona c. 1903.

Torres-García, c. 1910-1912.

Torres-García, c. 1912.

Torres-García, c. 1913.

The artist, c. 1920

Torres-García in front of his house at Calle Caramurú 5612, Montevideo, 1949.

Left to right: The artist's mother, María García Pérez; his father, Joaquín Torres Fradera, holding his sister, Inés, and Torres-García, c. 1892.

Torres-García and his wife, Manolita Piña de Torres, Barcelona, 1909.

The artist's mother, Maria Garcia Perez de Torres, in a room in Mon Repos decorated with the artist's work.

The artist, his wife, and their eldest daughter, Olimpia.

Torres-García with his family c. 1919. From left to right: Torres-García; his wife, Manolita; his mother, María García Pérez; his sister, Inés; and his children: Augusto, Ifigenia, and Olimpia.

Manolita Piña de Torres in her bedroom in Sarría.

The artist with his family in Italy, c. 1923

The artist with his son, Horacio, 1927

The artist with his son, Augusto

Unknown seated man with Ifigenia and Augusto Torres dressed in a Native American headdress at Torres-García's Paris home.

Torres-Garcia's son, Augusto, dressed as a Native American in their home in Paris

Arrival in Montevideo

Torres-Garcia with his sons Augusto (left) and Horacio (right)

The artist's family's departure from Cadiz, Spain for Montevideo.  From left to right: Eduardo Yepes, Olimpia, Horacio, Manolita, Torres-García, Ifigenia, and Augusto

From left to right: Torres-García, Eduardo Marquina, and Josep Pijoan, ca. 1897.

Second row left to right: Olimpia Torres (holding Horacio Torres), Augusto Torres, Jean Hélion with pipe, Torres-García, Manolita Pina de Torres (standing behind Torres-García)

Torres-García and Mondrian seated at head of the table

Left to right: Ingeborg Bjarnason, Denis Honegger, Manolita Pina de Torres, Torres-García, Piet Mondrian, Florence Henri, Georges Vantongerloo, and Madam Schall

Woodcut print by the artist, announcing the address of their new home, Mon Repos, 1915

From left to right: Ifigenia, Manolita, the artist, Augusto, and Olimpia.

The artist and his family at Mon Repos, 1916

The artist, at left, with artists from the Asociacion de Arte Constructivo at the Ateneo de Montevideo

From left to right: Joaquín Torres-García, Manuel Pailos, Guido Castillo, Horacio Torres, Augusto Torres, Jorge Visca, Rodolfo Visca, Julio Alpuy, Federico Amen, Jose Gurvich and Francisco Matto

Taller Torres-García

Torres-García with his students from the Taller Torres-García

Torres-García with his students from the Taller Torres-García

The artist in his library

Floor in the Montevideo home of the artist.

Artist's home in Montevideo at Calle Abayubá

Third from the left: Torres-García at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Colegio Mont d'Or, c. 1910-1911

In the second row, the man seated at left is Joan Palau i Vera; at right is Torres-García.  The man in the first row is Cebriá de Montoliu

Torres-García in Antoni Gaudí's studio at the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona 1903.

The home of Emilio Badiella in Terrassa, Spain.

The home of Emilio Badiella in Terrassa, Spain.

Torres-García teaching at Mont d'Or, c. 1912.

Unknown Catalan publication with a photograph of members of the Centre Nacionalista de New York.  Torres-Garcia is depicted seated in the rightmost chair at the front.

Go Pony

Installation of paintings in the Salle des Martyres at the Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris confiscated by the Nazis (1941-42)

Postcard from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid

Postcard from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid

Torres-García's lecture on Rafael Barradas
Photograph illustrated in an unknown newspapers from Montevideo, c. September 1934

Gravesite of the artist at the Cementerio del Norte in Montevideo, executed after his 1935 painting, Estructura.

The artist lecturing during a radio broadcast, c. 1937í

Locomotora sketch, 1919

Invitation to the exhibition Joguines d'art de Torres-García at Galeries Dalmau, December 1918

Advertising poster for Go-Pony!

The Go-Pony mechanism patented by Torres García

New York, 1922

Aladdin Toy Company stationery

Artist Toy Makers

Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García about the prices and models sent to Metz & Co.

Florence, July 5, 1923

Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García

Florence, May 22, 1923

Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to The Strauss Toy Shops

Florence, July 14, 1923

Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García

Florence, July 27, 1924 

Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García

Florence, Tuesday 9, ca. 1924

Letter from the director of Herbert, Wagg & Co. Limited to Torres García

London, March 28, 1924

Reverse: Letter from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García

Postcard from Bueno de Mesquita to Torres García

Florence, 1924

Letter from Torres García to Metz & Co.

Florence, February 4, 1924

Aladdin Toys Catalogue

Certificate of Aladdin Toys stock

May, 1924

Amparo Hernández, ca. 1923, con un pájaro de juguete

Metz & Co. catalogue

Christmas, 1925

Advertisement for an edition of Aladdin Toys by Torres García for F. Coll.

This project was never realized

1930 advertisement for Aladdin Toys

Advertisement in L'Acte magazine, num. 2

Paris, December 1927

Advertisement for the Toys exhibition at Librairie Oliviero

Paris, December 1931

Envelope for a letter sent to Torres García from the Otto Wagner toy factory

Freiburg, Germany 1931

Torres García's newspaper clippings