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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1930.64 (estate: 1068)
Dos figuras primitivas
1930
Oil on wood panel
13 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (34 x 25 cm)
Signed and dated upper center: JTG; dated upper left: 30
Photo by Isaac Azulay
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Private collection, Montevideo
Uniarte, Barcelona
Royal S. Marks, New York
Estate of Royal S. Marks
Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1993, lot 43, ills.
Christie's New York, November 21, 2000, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, lot 49, ill. p. 111.
Galería Sur, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Private collection
Exhibitions
1980 Sala Dalmau
Sala Dalmau, Vanguardias, September 1980.1994 XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil, Joaquín Torres-García, October 12–December 10, 1994, no. 44, ill., p. 29.2002–03 Museo Colecciones ICO
Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 62.2007–08 Fundación Caixa Girona
Fundación Caixa Girona, Spain, Torres-García Darrere la mascara constructiva, November 15, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 141. Traveled to: Can Palauet i Museu de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, January 19–February 17, 2008.2009–10 The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 48, ill., p. 140. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.Published References
Galería Sur 2005b
Galería Sur. Colección Galería Sur. Punta del Este: Galería Sur, 2005, ill.Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 135, no. 5.15.Record last updated July 21, 2023. 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. "Dos figuras primitivas, 1930 (1930.64)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1011 (accessed on August 25, 2025).