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Classification: Painting
Medium: Tempera
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1938
1938.26 (estate: 934)
Constructivo en rojo tierra
c.1938
Tempera on cardboard
20 7/8 x 16 1/2 in. (53 x 42 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Provenance
Exhibitions
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 105, ill., p. 88. 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.
Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, Torres-García: Selected Works from the Alejandra, Aurelio, Claudio Torres Collection, May 23–July 14, 2006, no. 25, ill., p. 21.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Torres-García a les seves cruïlles, May 17–September 11, 2011, no. 19, ill., p. 49.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García, April 12–May 25, 2018, plate 60, ill., p. 189, as Constructivo en rojo tierra.
Published References
Braun, Barbara. "South of Modernism." Connoisseur's World (February 1987), ill. p. 26.
Iberia Ronda (June 2011), ill.
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. "Constructivo en rojo tierra, c.1938 (1938.26)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1524 (accessed on July 15, 2025).