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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1928
1928.138 (estate: 44)
Face rouge
Alternate title: Masque rouge
1928
Oil on canvas
16 3/16 x 13 in. (41 x 33 cm)
Signed left side: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 28
Private collection, Barcelona
Exhibitions
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 157. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).
Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 167.
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 131, ill., p. 144.
Fundación Caixa Girona, Spain, Torres-García Darrere la mascara constructiva, November 15, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 111. Traveled to: Can Palauet i Museu de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, January 19–February 17, 2008.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 126. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Sala Dalmau, Barcelona, Joaquín Torres-García, October 1–28, 2015, no. 12, ill.
Galerie Zlotowski, Paris, L’esprit de synthèse, May 20–July 1, 2017, ill., p. 11, as Masque rouge.
Published References
Schaefer, Claude. Torres-García. Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1945, ill. no. 26.
de Torre, Guillermo. 37 Obras Comprendidas en el Período 1929-1947. Montevideo: Museo Torres García, 1959, ill.
Iglesias, Jose Maria. "Clasicismo y Americanismo." Mundo Hispanico (Madrid) "Extraordinario Dedicado al Pintor Torres (May 1975), ill. p. 61.
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 121.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 138, no. 5.22.
Rowell, Margit. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2009, ill. p. 36.
Record last updated April 28, 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. "Face rouge, 1928 (1928.138)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=819 (accessed on September 10, 2025).