Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1943.55 (estate: 766)
Formas libres
1943
Tempera on cardboard
19 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (50 x 58 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: JTG 43
Provenance
Exhibitions
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection, October 13–November 24, 1974, no. 93*, ill., p. 96 (Spanish version p. 106), Listed as number 43 in Caracas exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, January 13–February 26, 1975; Galería INC, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, August 22–September 1975.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 102, ill., p. 147. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Centre Cultural Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, De l'impressionisme a l'avantguarda a la Collecció Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, November 1999–February 2000, ill., p. 198. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, April 14–June 25, 2000 (no. 53, ill. p. 172.).
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, Del post-impresionismo a las vanguardias. Pintura de comienzos del siglo XX en la Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2000, no. 56, ill., p. 178.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Heterotopias: Medio siglo sin-lugar: 1918-1968, December 12, 2000–November 27, 2001, ill., p. 282.
Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, Málaga, Spain, La tradición moderna en la Colección Carmen Thyssen. Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Miró, 2011, ill., p. 132, lám. p. 133.
CaixaForum, Gerona, Spain, Rusiñol, Monet, Gauguin, Sunyer. El paisaje en la Colección Carmen Thyssen, 2012–13, no. 59, ill., p. 178, lám. p. 179. Traveled to: CaixaForum, Tarragona, Spain, 2013; CaixaForum, Lérida, Spain.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 183. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
"Joaquín Torres-García: propagandista de la modernidad." Madrid en Cinco Estrellas (1991), ill.
Arnaldo, Javier, ed. Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. 2 vols. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2004, Vol. 2. Ills. p. 314, lám. p. 315.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. Houston, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 200, fig 8.
Record last updated June 29, 2016. 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. "Formas libres, 1943 (1943.55)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1920 (accessed on July 7, 2025).