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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1946
1946.01 (estate: 789)
Puerto constructivo con hombre de cara roja
1946
Oil on cardboard
20 7/8 x 33 1/2 in. (53 x 85.1 cm)
Signed lower center: JTG; dated upper left: 1 Enero 1946
Upper center: "Montevideo / Sig. XX"
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Private collection, New York
Galería Biosca, Madrid
Private collection, Madrid
Christie's New York, June 2, 1999, Latin American Sale, lot 31, ill. p. 56-57.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Exhibitions
1974 Galería Biosca
Galería Biosca, Madrid, Exposición J. Torres-García, June 5–28, 1974, no. 41.
Published References
Quijano 1999
Quijano, Ana Martinez. "El Museo es clave para revaluar arte." Ambito Financiero (Buenos Aires) (June 14, 1999), ill.
Pérez-Barreiro 2007
Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel. The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 26.
Record last updated September 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. "Puerto constructivo con hombre de cara roja, 1946 (1946.01)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2038 (accessed on July 20, 2025).