Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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1937.13 (estate: 554)
Tres figuras constructivas primitivas
1937
Tempera on cardboard
31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (80 x 100 cm)
Signed lower left: J.T.G; dated lower right: 37
The figures in this work are inspired by Bronze Age decorated stelae found in Extremadura, Spain. Torres-García would have seen these objects in the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Madrid.
Provenance
Exhibitions
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. 4, ill.
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Selección de cuadros y maderas, July 28–October 31, 1967, no. 11.
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. 15, ill.
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 99, ill., p. 81. 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.
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, El Taller Torres-García-The School of the South and Its Legacy, September–December 1991, no. 17, ill., p. 99. Traveled to: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, June–August 1991; Museo de Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, January–April 1992; The Bronx Museum, New York, September 1992–January 10, 1993; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, February–May 1993.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 140-41. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Published References
Spiegel, Olga. "El constructivismo universal del artista uruguayo Torres García se exhibe en la fundación Miró." La Vanguardia (Barcelona), March 14, 1986, ill.
Cotter, Holland. "Founding inspiration of Latin Modernism." The New York Times, December 4, 1992, ill. p. B8 and C20.
"Torres García, un lenguaje artístico latinoamericano." SobreTodo (Chile) año II, no. 47 (November 20, 1992), ill.
Peralta Agüero, Abil. "Crónica de NY." Correo del Arte Hispano (Madrid), no. 6 (1993), ill.
Zimmer, William. "Echoes of Paris in a Montevideo School." The New York Times, January 3, 1993, ill.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 63.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p 283, no. 7.46.
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 28, fig. 9.
Torres-García, Traços de Nova York. Rio de Janeiro, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 Caixa Cultural), ill. p. 30.
Record last updated March 12, 2015. 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. "Tres figuras constructivas primitivas, 1937 (1937.13)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1475 (accessed on June 20, 2025).