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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1949
1949.12 (estate: 335)
Dos figuras constructivas con objeto
1949
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (50 x 50 cm)
Signed lower left; Dated lower right: 49
Private collection, São Paulo
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo
Augusto Torres, Montevideo
Estate of Augusto Torres
Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid
Private collection, São Paulo
Exhibitions
1974 The University of Texas at Austin
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. 104*, ill., p. 78 (Spanish version p. 86), Illustrated and listed as number 50 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.
1987 Fundación Torres-García
Fundación Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Acervo de la Fundación, 1987.
2007–08 Fundación Caixa Girona
Fundación Caixa Girona, Spain, Torres-García Darrere la mascara constructiva, November 15, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 172 and 173. Traveled to: Can Palauet i Museu de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, January 19–February 17, 2008.
2008 Galería Leandro Navarro
Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: De Paris a Montevideo, November 4–December 5, 2008, ill., p. 69.
Published References
Duncan 1974
Duncan, Barbara. "Latin American Catalyst." The Art Gallery Magazine (November 1974), ill. p. 18.
Pereda 1991
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 216.
El País 1996
Colección Diario El País:" Historia del Uruguay en Imágenes". Fascículo 27, La cultura del medio siglo. Montevideo: Impresora Sudamericana, 1996, ill. p. 319.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 332, no. 8.40.
Carbajal 2011
Miguel Carbajal. Arte uruguayo de los maestros a nuestros días: Joaquín Torres-García. Montevideo: El País, 2011, ill. p. 58.
Record last updated June 28, 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. "Dos figuras constructivas con objeto, 1949 (1949.12)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2114 (accessed on May 20, 2026).