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Medium: Oil
Support: On wood
Year: 1930
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
Estate of the artist
Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo
Augusto Torres
Estate of Augusto Torres
Private collection
Exhibitions
1974 Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas
Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García, July 1974, no. 72, ill.
1987 Fundación Torres-García
Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1987, no. 46.
2000b Galería Guillermo de Osma
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.
2003–04 Museo Picasso
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 196, ill., p. 211.
2008–09 Fundção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea
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.
2009–10 The Menil Collection
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
Schaefer 1945
Schaefer, Claude. Torres-García. Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1945, ill. no. 32.
Torres-García 1948a
Torres-García, Joaquín. Lo Aparente y lo concreto. No. 5. Montevideo: Asociación de Arte Constructivo, 1948, ill.
Flo 1961
Fló, Juan José. "Joaquín Torres García." Revista de la Universidad de México vol. XV, no. 12 (August 1961), ill. p. 21.
Jardí 1973
Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1973, ill. p.169, no. 226.
Maslach 1998
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 351, no. 187.
Battegazzore 1999
Battegazzore, Miguel A. J. Torres-García: La trama y los signos. Montevideo: Gordon, 1999, ill. p. 27, no. 14.
García-Bermejo 2002
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 52.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 109, no. 4.19.
Sanchez Vidal 2012
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).