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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1944

1944.08 (estate: 42)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1944

Oil on cardboard

26 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (68 x 53 cm)

Signed lower left: JTG; dated lower right: 44

Museo Torres García, Montevideo

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo

Museo Torres García, Montevideo

Exhibitions

1951 Instituto de Arte Moderno

Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Joaquin Torres-García, Pinturas, April 1951, no. 1.

1962a Museo Torres-García

Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición de la colección de retratos del maestro en el Museo Torres-García, July 1962, no. 3, ill.

1971–72 Museo Torres García

Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición Homenaje a Esther de Cáceres, December 1971–March 1972, no. 22.

1990a Museo Torres García

Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1990, no. 50, ill., p. 42.

Published References

Sarfatti 1947a

Sarfatti, Margherita. Espejo de la Pintura Actual. Buenos Aires: Argos, 1947, ill.

Ver y Estimar 1949

"Joaquín Torres-García: Homenaje de Ver y Estimar." Ver y Estimar (Buenos Aires) vol. IV, no. 11 and 12 (June 1949), ill.

Romero Brest 1951

Romero Brest, Jorge. Pintores y Grabadores Rioplatenses. Buenos Aires: Argos, 1951, ill.

Torrens 1959a

Torrens, Maria Luisa. "Significación del Taller Torres García." El País (Montevideo), 1959, ill.

Gradowczyk 2007

Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 299, no. 7.72.

Supplemental Images

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1944 (1944.08). Vasily Grigorevich Perov, "Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky," 1872, oil on canvas, 39 x 32 in. (99.5 x 81 cm), Location: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vasily Grigorevich Perov, "Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky," 1872, oil on canvas, 39 x 32 in. (99.5 x 81 cm), Location: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Record last updated August 12, 2021. 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. "Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1944 (1944.08)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1797 (accessed on July 13, 2025).