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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1943.115
Pintura constructiva 12
1943
Oil on cardboard
33 x 40 in. (83.8 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left: JTG; dated lower right: 43
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection
Exhibitions
1950 Sidney Janis Gallery
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres García, April 3–22, 1950. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, June 19–July 2, 1950.1985–86b Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 119, ill., p. 98. Traveled to: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, March 13–May 4, 1986; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28–August 17, 1986; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 14–November 9, 1986; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, February 14–April 5, 1987.1992–93 Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Art d'Amérique latine: 1911- 1968, November 12, 1992–January 11, 1993, ill., p. 313.Published References
Círculo y Cuadrado 1940
Círculo y Cuadrado (Montevideo), no. 8–9–10 (1940), ill. p. 3.Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne 1993
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne. Art d'Amerique latine: 1911- 1968. Paris, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 313.Sureda 1995
Sureda, Joan. Catalunya genio a genio: del siglo XI al siglo XXI. Barcelona: El Mundo de Cataluña, ill. p. 187, as Pintura constructiva 12.Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 304, no. 8.2Record last updated April 6, 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. "Pintura constructiva 12, 1943 (1943.115)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1979 (accessed on July 12, 2025).