Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1929.97 (estate: 942)
Madera planos de color
1929
Oil on incised wood
17 x 8 in. (43.2 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated verso: J. Torres-GARCIA 29
Provenance
Exhibitions
Centre Cultural Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, De l'impressionisme a l'avantguarda a la Collecció Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, November 1999–February 2000, ill., p. 192. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, April 14–June 25, 2000 (no. 53, ill. p. 172.).
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, Del post-impresionismo a las vanguardias. Pintura de comienzos del siglo XX en la Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2000, no. 53, ill., p. 172.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Heterotopias: Medio siglo sin-lugar: 1918-1968, December 12, 2000–November 27, 2001, ill., p. 284.
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm, June 29–September 16, 2001, ill., plate 30. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, October 18, 2001–June 1, 2002 (Abstracción: el paradigma amerindio).
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 86. 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. 92.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 39, ill., p. 22. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Torres-García a les seves cruïlles, May 17–September 11, 2011, no. 33, ill., p. 64.
Fundació Privada Centre d'Art Col•lecció Catalana de Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, L'ideal en el paisatge. De Meifrèn a Matisse i Gontxarova. Col•lecció Carmen Thyssen, 2014, ill., p. 126, lám. p. 127.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 73. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Museo Picasso. Torres-García. Barcelona, 2003-2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 193.
Arnaldo, Javier, ed. Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. 2 vols. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2004, vol. 2, ill. p. 306, lám. p. 307.
LLorens, Tomas. "Madera planos de color." In Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, edited by J. Arnaldo. Madrid: Fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza, 20014, ill. p. 306.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. Houston, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 192, fig. 1.
Fundación Juan March. Cold America: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973). Madrid, 2011. Exhibition catalogue (2011 Fundación Juan March), ill. p. 36, fig. 5.
Gamwell, Lynn. Mathematics + Art: A Cultural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, ill. p. 414, fig. 11-33.
Record last updated October 21, 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. "Madera planos de color, 1929 (1929.97)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1254 (accessed on July 13, 2025).