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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On board
Year: 1928
1928.185
Adam and Eve
1928
Oil on board
31 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (79.4 x 64.1 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres GARCIA; dated lower right: 28
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (no. 66.314)
Provenance
Pierre Loeb, Paris
Private collection, Montevideo
Galería Bonino, Ltd., New York
Nancy Sayles Day
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Exhibitions
1968 Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art, August 4–October 31, 1968.
1970 The National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, October 2–November 1, 1970, no. 9, ill., p. 42. Traveled to: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 12, 1970–January 31, 1971; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 16–March 31, 1971.
1986–87 Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Rhode Island, The First America: Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art, 1986–87, no. 1, ill., p. 19. Traveled to: Americas Society / Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, January 13–April 5, 1987; El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, June 7–July 31, 1987; Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts, September 11–October 25, 1987; Gainesville University Gallery / University of Florida, Florida, November 13–December 20, 1987.
Published References
Fló 1974
Fló, Juan. "El Centenario Joaquín Torres-García, un destino americano." Crisis (Buenos Aires) año 2, no. 16 (August 1974), ill. p. 72.
Record last updated June 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. "Adam and Eve, 1928 (1928.185)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=861 (accessed on November 7, 2025).