Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti

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Keywords
- Construction
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1931.13
Composition
1931
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 24 in. (91.7 x 61 cm)
Signed lower center: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 31
Provenance
Exhibitions
Salón de Otoño, Madrid, Salón de Arte Constructivo, October 1933.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, July 1–December 31, 1956.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent American Acquisitions, March 14–April 30, 1957.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1961–January 1962, no. 5. Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 2–April 1, 1962.
The University of Texas at Austin, The University Art Museum, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1, 1971–January 16, 1972, no. 15.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Making Choices:The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, June 2000.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 137. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
de Torre, Guillermo. "La pintura de Torres-Garcia." Arte: Revista de la Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos (Madrid) año 1, no. 1 (1932), ill. p. 47.
"Painting and sculpture acquisitions." Museum of Modern Art Bulletin vol. XXIV, no. 4 (Summer 1957), ill.
Romero, Danilo. "Notas sobre el arte americano." Idea, Artes y Letras (Lima) (April-June 1960), ill.
Ducan, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres García." Americas Vol. 22, No. 11-12 (November-December 1970), ill. p. 15.
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries. Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection. Austin: 1974. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 15.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 42, no. 25.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 201, no. 6.33.
Viveros-Fauné, Christian. "True South." Village Voice, January 6-January 12, 2016, ill.
Di Benedetto, Antonio. The Silentiary. New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, ill. on front cover and thumbnail ill. on back cover, as Composition.
Record last updated July 12, 2017. 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, 1931 (1931.13)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1036 (accessed on July 26, 2025).