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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1943
1943.11 (estate: 908)
Composición con sol
Alternate titles: Composition 2; Composition with Sun
1943
Oil on cardboard
18 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (48 x 53 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: JTG 43
Signed upper left: AAÇ
Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico
Provenance
Private collection, Miami Beach
Private collection, United States
Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico
Exhibitions
Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., Torres-García and his Workshop, February 2–March 13, 1950, no. 6, as Composition 2.
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Superposiciones: Artelatinoamericano en colecciones mexicanas, May 23–April 10, 2015, ill., p. 191.
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection, October 21, 2017–March 11, 2018, no. 44, ill., p.102, as Composition with Sun.
Published References
Torres-García, Joaquín. Universalismo Constructivo. Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1944, ill. on cover and p. 753, no. III.
Watson Crane, Jane. "Torres-Garcia Was a Teacher." The Washington Post, February 5, 1950, ill.
Romera, Antonio R. "La 'Regla Abstracta' de J. Torres-García." El Mercurio (Chile), December 12, 1968, ill. as Realismo Constructivo.
Velásquez Martínez del Campo, Roxana. Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection. San Diego: The San Diego Museum of Art, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, as Composition with Sun.
Record last updated July 20, 2017. 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. "Composición con sol, 1943 (1943.11)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1878 (accessed on July 13, 2025).