Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1931.89
Composition au masque
1931
Oil on wood
19 5/8 x 14 x 3/4 in. (50 x 35.5 x 2 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 31
Private collection, Montevideo
Provenance
André Level , Paris
Private collection, Miami
Private collection, Montevideo
Exhibitions
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 60, ill., p. 149. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Torres-García: Utopía y Tradición, May 23–July 31, 2011. (Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero 2011), ill., p. 17 and 74, fig. 16.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 129. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 131. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
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 au masque, 1931 (1931.89)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1181 (accessed on June 28, 2025).