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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1943
1943.10 (estate: 501)
Constructivo con planos de color y grafismo
Alternate titles: Constructive composition; Constructivism
1943
Oil on canvas
27 x 30 1/4 in. (68.5 x 77 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: JTG 43
Exhibitions
Pan American Union, District of Columbia, Joaquín Torres-García of Uruguay, April 19–May 5, 1961. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, California, July 13–August 15, 1961; Wells College, Macmillan Hall, Aurora, New York, October 15–November 15, 1961.
Rose Fried Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949 - 15th Memorial Exhibition, January 6–February 13, 1965, ill.
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, October 2–November 1, 1970, no. 54, ill., p. 85. Traveled to: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 12, 1970–January 31, 1971; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 16–March 31, 1971.
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C., Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1985, ill., p. 37.
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., Different Voices: Artists from Uruguay in Washington Collections, November 4–December 3, 1988, no. 35, ill., on cover.
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., Universal Constructivism and the School of the South, February 20–April 6, 1996, no. 16, ill., on cover.
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, Libertad de Expresión: The Art Museum of the Americas and Cold War Politics, February 19–June 7, 2015.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 186. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Suro, Darío. "El Universalismo Constructivo de Torres-García." Américas vol. 17, no. 5 (March 1965), ill. p. 29.
Gomez-Sicre, Jose. "Torres-Garcia y la America Arcaica." "Extraordinario Dedicado al Pintor Torres-García.." Mundo Hispánico (Madrid), no. 326 (May 1975), ill. p. 24.
Chaplik, Dorothy. Latin American Art: An Introduction to Works of the 20th Century. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1989, ill. p. 28, as Constructivism.
Traba, Marta. Art of Latin America, 1900-1980. Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 1994, ill. p. 76.
Record last updated October 21, 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. "Constructivo con planos de color y grafismo, 1943 (1943.10)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1877 (accessed on July 13, 2025).