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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
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Estate of Horacio Torres
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
Royal S. Marks, New York
Estate of Royal S. Marks
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 22 and 23, 1993, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, lot 38, ill.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid
Exhibitions
1981 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc.
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.1994 Quinta Galería
Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia, Exposición Joaquín Torres-García y La Escuela del Sur, September 28–November 28, 1994, ill., p. 4.1997 Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos
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, 1997.1997 Cultural Rioja
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, 1997.2000b Galería Guillermo de Osma
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, 2001.2009–10 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. 85, ill., p. 160. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.2015 Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia
Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia, Murcia, Spain, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, May 7–July 5, 2015, ill., p. 87.2022 Ortuzar Projects
Ortuzar Projects, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: Toys, January 27–March 12, 2022, as Constructivo Blanco (White Constructive).Published References
Arteaga 1993
Arteaga, Alicia de. "Remates neoyorquinos en el sube y baja." La Nación (Buenos Aires), November 20, 1993, ill. p. 17 (reproduced upside down).Medina 1995
Medina, Alvaro. "Torres Garcia and the Southern School." Art Nexus No. 16 (April/June 1995), ill. p. 104.García-Bermejo 2002
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 56.Gradowczyk 2007
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).