Joaquín Torres-García

Catalogue Raisonné

Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres

Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti

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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1943

1943.81 (estate: 771)

Contrapunto

1943

Oil on cardboard

19 1/2 x 26 3/16 in. (49.5 x 66.5 cm)

Signed and dated lower left: JTG 1943

Private collection

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Rose Fried Gallery, New York

Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 5, 1981, lot 99, ills.

Sotheby's, New York, Latin American Art, May 24, 2006, lot 17, ills. p. 46-67.

Private collection, New York

Private collection

Exhibitions

1947 Salón del Ateneo de Montevideo

Salón del Ateneo de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 222 Obras Retrospectivas y Recientes de J. Torres-García, April 20, 1947, no. 113.

Published References

Gradowczyk 2007

Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 309, no. 8.11.

Record last updated April 3, 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. "Contrapunto, 1943 (1943.81)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1946 (accessed on July 8, 2025).