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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1939.05
Retrato de Margherita Sarfatti
Alternate title: Mujer con sombrero de paja
1939
Oil on cardboard
22 7/8 x 16 1/16 in. (58 x 43 cm)
Signed upper left: JTG; dated upper right: 39
Margherita Sarfatti was Mussolini's lover from 1913 to 1936. In 1939 she moved from Rome to Uruguay to escape from the situation in Italy. During her first year in Montevideo she met Torres-García who painted her portrait three times.
Provenance
Margherita Sarfatti, Montevideo and Rome
Sotheby's , London, United Kingdom, October 24, 1984.
Private collection, Washington D.C.
Christie's New York, May 22, 1986, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, lot 36, ill. p. 41.
Galerie Marcel Fleiss, Paris
Private collection, Washington D.C.
Castells & Castells, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 26, 1998, Joaquín Torres-García y Su Legado, lot 41, ill. p. 14.
Exhibitions
1992 Art Museum of the Americas
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., From Torres García to Soto, June 26–October 7, 1992, ill., p. 24.Record last updated August 4, 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. "Retrato de Margherita Sarfatti, 1939 (1939.05)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1552 (accessed on July 27, 2025).