Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1933.32 (estate: 1065)
Constructivo blanco
Alternate title: Constructivo Blanco (White Constructive)
1933
Oil on incised wood
11 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (30.2 x 17.6 cm)
Signed upper left: JTG; Dated upper right: 33
Provenance
Exhibitions
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc, New York, Joaquín Torres-García - Paintings, Constructions and Drawings, September 9–October 3, 1981. (Salander-O'Reilly Gallery 1981), no. 14, ill.
Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia, Exposición Joaquín Torres-García y La Escuela del Sur, September 28–November 28, 1994, ill., p. 4.
Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza, Spain, Joaquín Torres García: artista y teórico, April 10–June 22, 1997, no. 16, ill., p. 68. 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. 28, ill., p. 95. Traveled to: Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, October 16–November 23, 1997.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Torres-García: Construcciones en madera, November 7–December 22, 2000, no. 11, ill., p. 26. Traveled to: Oriol Galería d'Art, Barcelona, January 10–February 9, 2001.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 85, ill., p. 160. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia, Murcia, Spain, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, May 7–July 5, 2015, ill., p. 87.
Ortuzar Projects, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: Toys, January 27–March 12, 2022, as Constructivo Blanco (White Constructive).
Published References
Arteaga, Alicia de. "Remates neoyorquinos en el sube y baja." La Nación (Buenos Aires), November 20, 1993, ill. p. 17 (reproduced upside down).
Medina, Alvaro. "Torres Garcia and the Southern School." Art Nexus No. 16 (April/June 1995), ill. p. 104.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 56.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 220, no. 6.63.
Record last updated February 23, 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. "Constructivo blanco, 1933 (1933.32)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1396 (accessed on September 11, 2025).