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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On canvas

Year: 1935

1935.08

Lugano

Alternate title: Vista de Lugano

c.1935

Oil on canvas

17 7/8 x 18 5/16 in. (45.5 x 46.5 cm)

Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; not dated

Provenance

Private collection, Montevideo

Christie's New York, May 19, 1993, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, lot 102. Dated 1933

Private collection, Montevideo

Castells Online, Montevideo, November 10, 2021, Colección Bister & Pessaj, lot 28.

Exhibitions

1951 Comisión Municipal de Cultura

Comisión Municipal de Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición J. Torres-García, August 1951, no. 60.

1995 Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Barradas/Torres García, 1995, no. 61, as Vista de Lugano.

1996 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, A Vanguarda no Uruguai: Barradas e Torres-García, May 30–June 21, 1996, ill., p. 87 no. 62. Traveled to: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, August 1–30, 1996.

Record last updated November 11, 2021. 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. "Lugano, c.1935 (1935.08)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1436 (accessed on September 14, 2025).