Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1930.90 (estate: 981)
Composición abstracta con madera superpuesta
1930
Oil on wood
16 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (41.5 x 30 cm)
Signed and dated verso
Provenance
Exhibitions
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Selección de cuadros y maderas, July 28–October 31, 1967, no. 19, ill.
Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1987, no. 48.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 59, ill., p. 99. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Ismos: arte de vanguardia (1910-1936), May 27–July 26, 1996, no. 8, ill., p. 19.
Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, J.Torres-García, obra constructiva, August–September 1996, no. 3.
Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza, Spain, Joaquín Torres García: artista y teórico, April 10–June 22, 1997, no. 10, ill., p. 62. 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. 20, ill., p. 87. Traveled to: Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, October 16–November 23, 1997.
Museo Ramón Gaya, Murcia, Joaquín Torres-García: Óleos, dibujos, esculturas y juguetes, March 1–May 12, 1999, ill.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Torres-García: Construcciones en madera, November 7–December 22, 2000, no. 5, ill., p. 5 and 21. 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. 164. 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. 165.
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. 92, Reproduced upside down. 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. 45, ill., p. 71. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 88. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 352, no. 197.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 50, Reproduced upside-down.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 118, no. 4.31.
Record last updated October 20, 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. "Composición abstracta con madera superpuesta, 1930 (1930.90)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1281 (accessed on August 21, 2025).