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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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1927.14
Port de Livourne - Italie
Alternate title: Barcos en el muelle
1927
Oil on canvas
24 x 19 3/4 in. (61 x 50.2 cm)
Signed upper left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated upper right: 27
"No. 20" on verso
Despite the title assigned to this work in the 1927 Galerie Carmine show, this painting depicts a scene in Villefranche-sur-mer, as confirmed by a related drawing from the artist's 1926 Villefranche notebook.
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 25, 1981
Sotheby's New York, New York, May 12, 1983, 18th, 19th and 20th Century Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, lot 30A, ill.
Royal S. Marks, New York
Estate of Royal S. Marks
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 22, 1993, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Prints, lot 41, ill.
Sotheby's New York, New York, May 15, 1996, Latin American Art, lot 137, ill.
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 26, 1997, Latin American Art, lot 180, ill. p. 131.
Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
1927 Galerie Carmine
Galerie Carmine, Paris, J. Torres-García, June 16–30, 1927, no. 20, as Port de Livourne - Italie.1998 Galería Palatina
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres-García, (1874-1949): Pinturas, dibujos, construcciones y juguetes, September 23–October 13, 1998, no. 15, ill., p. 5.2002–03 MALBA
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Artistas modernos Rioplatenses en Europa, 1911- 1924: La experiencia de la vanguardia, October 17, 2002–January 27, 2003, no. 67, ill., p. 49.2004 Galería Leandro Navarro
Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Arte Constructivo, November 10–December 17, 2004, ill., p. 73.Published References
Ambito Financiero 2000
"Actualidad." Ambito Financiero (Buenos Aires) September 11, 2000, ill.Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 140, no. 5.26.
Record last updated April 24, 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. "Port de Livourne - Italie, 1927 (1927.14)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=596 (accessed on September 10, 2025).