Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1933.35 (estate: 980)
Construcción en blanco y negro
Alternate title: Constructivo en blanco y negro "TBA"
1933
Oil on wood
22 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (57.8 x 33.6 cm)
Signed lower center: J. Torres GARCIA; Dated lower right: 33
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Private collection
Exhibitions
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Torres-García: Construction et Symboles, June 11–August 1975, no. 33. Traveled to: Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8–July 22, 1978 (América Latina Geometria Sensível).
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 60, ill., p. 59. Traveled to: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, March 13–May 4, 1986; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28–August 17, 1986; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 14–November 9, 1986; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, February 14–April 5, 1987.
Sicardi Gallery, Houston, The School of the South, el Taller T-G, November 2001.
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, El Cubismo y sus entornos en las colecciones de Telefónica, January 20–March 27, 2005, ill., p. 253. Traveled to: Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, December 20, 2005–May 7, 2006; Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, July 4–September 3, 2006; Museo de Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain, September 21, 2006–January 15, 2007; Fundación Telefónica Chile, Santiago de Chile, April 1–June 29, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, July 22–September 14, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Neuquén, November 7–January 11, 2008; Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru, March 31–June 28, 2009; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, September 26–November 11, 2009; Musée D'Ixelles, Brussels, February 4–April 25, 2010; Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, July 8–September 26, 2010; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, November 23, 2010–January 9, 2011.
Fundación Telefónica, Colección Cubista de Telefónica, May 9, 2012–September 1, 2013. Traveled to: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, September 23–February 16, 2013; Museo de Bellas Artes, Sevilla, Spain, March 6–June 29, 2014; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Spain, September 30–January 11, 2014; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain, February 3–May 31, 2015.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Colección Telefónica: Cubismo(s) y experiencias de la Modernidad, November 22, 2017, as Constructivo en blanco y negro "TBA".
Published References
Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro. América Latina Geometria Sensível. Rio de Janeiro, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 47.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 58, no. 37.
Ruiz, Enrique Andrés. "La hora de Joaquín Torres-García." El País (Madrid), May 14, 2016, ill.
Guilarte, Mariela. Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino: 25+. Houston: Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, ill. p. 292, as Constructivo en blanco y negro "TBA".
Record last updated December 7, 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. "Construcción en blanco y negro, 1933 (1933.35)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1406 (accessed on September 12, 2025).