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Medium: Oil
Support: On wood
Year: 1935
1935.19 (estate: 953)
Construcción
1935
Oil and nails on wood
16 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 2 5/8 in. (42.9 x 19.7 x 6.7 cm)
Exhibitions
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection, October 13–November 24, 1974, no. 180*, Listed as number 69 in Caracas exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, January 13–February 26, 1975; Galería INC, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, August 22–September 1975.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Moderne?, July–October 1986, no. 99, ill., p. 88.
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, Abstracción y Montaje 1916-1945: la colección del IVAM, July–October 1994, ill., p. 32.
Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, J.Torres-García, obra constructiva, August–September 1996, no. 31, ill.
Museo Ramón Gaya, Murcia, Joaquín Torres-García: Óleos, dibujos, esculturas y juguetes, March 1–May 12, 1999, ill.
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. 6. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, February 24–April 19, 2009.
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, La estructura en la coleccion del IVAM, February 5–May 3, 2009, ill., p. 69.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 87, ill., p. 29 and on cover. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
Published References
Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1973, ill. p. 195, no. 264.
El arte del Siglo XX 1900-1949. Barcelona: Salvat, 1990, ill. p. 537.
Wisotzki, Ruben. "El arte latinoamericano vuelve a someterse al martillo." El Diario de Caracas, November 19, 1992.
Garcia Iglesias, Jose Manuel. "Geometría Torres-García." ABC de las Artes (September 6, 1996), ill. p. 29.
Rowell, Margit. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2009, ill. p. 81.
Record last updated June 29, 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. "Construcción, 1935 (1935.19)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1439 (accessed on July 1, 2025).