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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1937
1937.04 (estate: 528)
Arte universal
1937
Oil on canvas
38 1/4 x 46 1/8 in. (97 x 117 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: J.T.G 1937
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Estate of Horacio Torres
Private collection
Exhibitions
1950 Museo Departamental de San José
Museo Departamental de San José, San José, Uruguay, October 1950, no. 25.
1955 Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris, Joaquín Torres García, November–December 1955, no. 17.
1956 Venice XXVIII Biennale Internazionale D'Arte
Venice XXVIII Biennale Internazionale D'Arte, Sala LIX: Uruguay, Venice, Italy, June–September 1956, no. 4.
1957 Museo Torres-García
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, July–October 1957, no. 13.
1962b Museo Torres-García
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Joaquín Torres-García 28 VII-1874 – 8 VIII- 1949, August 1962, no. 6, ill.
1964 Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres-García: Obras de museos y colecciones particulares de Montevideo y Buenos Aires, November 4–29, 1964, no. 5, ill.
1980 Museo de Bellas Artes
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Joaquín Torres García y su visión constructiva, May 1980, no. 9.
1981 Museo de Monterrey
Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, Exposición del gran pintor uruguayo Joaquín Torres –García, April–June 1981. (Museo de Monterrey 1981), no. 11.
1985–86b Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 91, ill., p. 77. 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.
2003–04 Museo Picasso
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 273, ill., p. 279.
2018 Acquavella Galleries
Acquavella Galleries, New York, The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García, April 12–May 25, 2018, plate 56, ill., p. 12, p. 181, detail pp. 182-83, as Arte universal.
Record last updated July 20, 2023. 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. "Arte universal, 1937 (1937.04)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1466 (accessed on June 22, 2025).