Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Furniture and Decorative Arts
Year: 1940
1940.76
Radio
Alternate title: Project for a monument
1940
Painted and incised original wood radio box
15 x 23 x 11 in. (38.1 x 58.4 x 27.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: JTG; dated upper left: 1940
Private collection, Paris
Provenance
Exhibitions
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. 17, titled "Projet pour un monument". Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, February 24–April 19, 2009.
Published References
Torres-García, Joaquín. Nueva Escuela de Arte del Uruguay. Montevideo: Publicaciones de la Asociación de Arte Constructivo, 1946.
Gomez-Sicre, Jose. "Torres-Garcia y la America Arcaica." "Extraordinario Dedicado al Pintor Torres-García.." Mundo Hispánico (Madrid), no. 326 (May 1975), ill. p. 27.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. La escuela del sur: el Taller Torres-Garcia y su legado. Madrid, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 83.
El Taller Torres-García: The School of the South and Its Legacy. Edited by Mari-Carmen Ramírez. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 148. Dated 1939.
Record last updated May 9, 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. "Radio, 1940 (1940.76)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1695 (accessed on July 14, 2025).