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Medium: Oil
Support: On wood
Year: 1929
1929.89 (estate: 948)
Madera
Alternate titles: Construcción en madera; Wooden Construction
1929
Oil on wood
19 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (50.4 x 22 x 4.6 cm)
Signed and dated verso: J. Torres-GARCIA 1929
Exhibitions
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Torres-García: Construcciones en madera, November 7–December 22, 2000, no. 4, ill., p. 20. Traveled to: Oriol Galería d'Art, Barcelona, January 10–February 9, 2001.
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 89. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).
Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 94.
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 180, ill., p. 195.
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands, Constructing a New World: Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde, October 20, 2009–January 3, 2010, ill., p. 150. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, February 4–May 16, 2010.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 72. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, The Revolution is dead. Long live the Revolution!, April 13–July 9, 2017, ill., p. 127 and 176, fig. 124, as Wooden Construction.
Published References
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. Houston, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill.p. 175, no. 107.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p 116, no 4.29. .
Rowell, Margit. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2009, ill. p. 54.
Martín, Carlos, Fernándo López, and Rocío Robles. The collection. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Keys to a Reading (Part I). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: Ediciones de La Central, 2010, ill. p. 138, as Construcción en madera.
The Menil Collection. Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood. Houston, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2009–10 The Menil Collection), ill. p.15, no. 22.
Record last updated May 1, 2018. 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. "Madera, 1929 (1929.89)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1246 (accessed on July 18, 2025).