Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1930.85 (estate: 1054)
Objetos en colores superpuestos
1930
Oil and nails on wood
25 3/8 x 15 x 1 1/8 in. (64.5 x 38 x 2.8 cm)
Signed lower left: JTG; dated lower right: 30
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibitions
Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García, July 1974, no. 72, ill.
Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1987, no. 46.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Torres-García: Construcciones en madera, November 7–December 22, 2000, no. 8, ill., p. 23. Traveled to: Oriol Galería d'Art, Barcelona, January 10–February 9, 2001.
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 196, ill., p. 211.
Fundção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Spain, A Intuição e a Estrutura/La Intuición y la Estructura: De Torres-García a Vieira da Silva 1929-1949, December 4, 2008–January 25, 2009, ill., p. 86. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, February 24–April 19, 2009.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 58, ill., p. 161. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Published References
Torres-García, Joaquín. Lo Aparente y lo concreto. No. 5. Montevideo: Asociación de Arte Constructivo, 1948, ill.
Fló, Juan José. "Joaquín Torres García." Revista de la Universidad de México vol. XV, no. 12 (August 1961), ill. p. 21.
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 351, no. 187.
Battegazzore, Miguel A. J. Torres-García: La trama y los signos. Montevideo: Gordon, 1999, ill. p. 27, no. 14.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 52.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 109, no. 4.19.
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 35.
Record last updated June 22, 2016. 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. "Objetos en colores superpuestos, 1930 (1930.85)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1276 (accessed on August 22, 2025).