Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Keywords
- Construction
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1930.86 (estate: 1055)
Constructivo con varillas superpuestas
Alternate titles: Constructive with attached rods; Constructivo con varillas sobrepuestas
1930
Oil on wood
23 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (60 x 42 x 3 cm)
Signed and dated upper left: JTG 30
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Exhibitions
Museo de Arte Precolombino, Colección Matto, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición Homenaje a Joaquín Torres-García: Juguetes, Objetos de Arte, Maderas, October 1974, no. 71.
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres García, August–October 1977, no. 10.
Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1987, no. 49.
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, Arte Abstracto, Arte Concreto: Paris, Cercle et Carré, 1930, September 20–December 2, 1990, no. 20, ill., p. 52.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 60, ill., p. 100. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza, Spain, Joaquín Torres García: artista y teórico, April 10–June 22, 1997, no. 11, ill., p. 63. Traveled to: Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca, Spain, July 11–August 24, 1997.
iberCaja, Cultural Rioja, Logroño, Spain, Joaquín Torres García: artista y teórico, August 29–September 28, 1997, no. 21, ill., p. 33. Traveled to: Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, October 16–November 23, 1997.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Heterotopias: Medio siglo sin-lugar: 1918-1968, December 12, 2000–November 27, 2001, ill., p. 284.
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 40. 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, p. 46.
Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Universalismo Constructivo: Joaquín Torres García, Óleos, Maderas y Dibujos, July 28–December 15, 2004, a, ill., p. 45.
Fundación Caixa Girona, Spain, Torres-García Darrere la mascara constructiva, November 15, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 55, 143. Traveled to: Can Palauet i Museu de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, January 19–February 17, 2008.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 47, ill., p. 155. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 130. 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. 85. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
"Tres caminos para un Mundo Cotidiano." Revista V.S.D. (Buenos Aires), August 18, 1978, ill.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 41, no. 24.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 54.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. Houston, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 157, no. 85.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 115, no. 4.28. .
O'Brien, Elaine, Everlyn Nicodemus, Melissa Chiu, Benjamin Genocchio, Mary K. Coffey, and Roberto Tejada. Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, fig. 32.1, ill. p. 342, as Constructive with attached rods.
Record last updated August 2, 2017. 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. "Constructivo con varillas superpuestas, 1930 (1930.86)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1277 (accessed on August 22, 2025).