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 canvas

Year: 1929

1929.13

Ulica

Alternate title: Street

c.1929

Oil on canvas

24 3/8 x 29 5/8 in. (62 x 75 cm)

In 1929, Torres-García and other artists donated a painting to the emerging collection of the Museum of Art in Lodz, Poland. These artists included Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, W. Baumeister, S. Charchoune, Sonia Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Max Ernst, Albert Gleizes, Jean Gorin, Jean Hélion, Auguste Herbin, V. Huszar, P. Joostens, Fernand Léger, J. Lurçat, J. Marcoussis, Amadée Ozenfant, E. Prampolini, H.R. Schiess, Kurt Schwitters, Kurt Seligman, M. Seuphor, G. Valmier, Georges Vantongerloo, F. Vordemberge-Gildewart, and H.N. Werckman. Torres-García's donation was later destroyed during WWII.

This painting entered the collection of the Sztuki Museum in Lodz, Poland in 1932. It was donated by the artist to the a.r. Grupa Sztuki Nowoczesnj.

DESTROYED during World War II

Provenance

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

DESTROYED

Exhibitions

1931 Miejskie Muzeum Historii i Sztuki im. J. i K. Bartoszewiczów w Łodzi

Miejskie Muzeum Historii i Sztuki im. J. i K. Bartoszewiczów w Łodzi (The J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art), Lodz, Poland, Międzynarodowa Kolekcja Sztuki Nowoczesnej (Collection Internationale d’Art Nouveau), February 15, 1931, no. 27, ill., n.p. [6], ill. no. 27, as Street.

Record last updated May 28, 2019. 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. "Ulica, c.1929 (1929.13)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2369 (accessed on April 30, 2025).