Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 21, ill., p. 32. Traveled to: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, March 13–May 4, 1986; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28–August 17, 1986; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 14–November 9, 1986; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, February 14–April 5, 1987.

1990 Galerie Marwan Hoss

Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, Hommage a Torres-García: Oeuvres de 1928 à 1948, May 30–July 20, 1990, ill., p. 44.

1991 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 69, ill., p. 111. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.

1998–99 Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.

Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Autumn 1998, no. 4, ill., plate.

2001 Palais des Beaux Arts

Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm, June 29–September 16, 2001, ill., plate 29. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, October 18, 2001–June 1, 2002 (Abstracción: el paradigma amerindio).

2002 Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg

Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 179. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).

2002–03 Museo Colecciones ICO

Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 183.

2005 Fundación Telefónica

Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, El Cubismo y sus entornos en las colecciones de Telefónica, January 20–March 27, 2005, ill., p. 249. Traveled to: Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, December 20, 2005–May 7, 2006; Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, July 4–September 3, 2006; Museo de Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain, September 21, 2006–January 15, 2007; Fundación Telefónica Chile, Santiago de Chile, April 1–June 29, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, July 22–September 14, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Neuquén, November 7–January 11, 2008; Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru, March 31–June 28, 2009; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, September 26–November 11, 2009; Musée D'Ixelles, Brussels, February 4–April 25, 2010; Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, July 8–September 26, 2010; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, November 23, 2010–January 9, 2011.

2012–13 Fundación Telefónica

Fundación Telefónica, Colección Cubista de Telefónica, May 9, 2012–September 1, 2013. Traveled to: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, September 23–February 16, 2013; Museo de Bellas Artes, Sevilla, Spain, March 6–June 29, 2014; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Spain, September 30–January 11, 2014; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain, February 3–May 31, 2015.

2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 84. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.

2017 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Colección Telefónica: Cubismo(s) y experiencias de la Modernidad, November 22, 2017, as Physique.

Published References

Braun 1993

Braun, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres-García: The Alchemical Grid." In Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World, Ancient American Sources of Modern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993, ill. p. 261.

Angeline 1999

Angeline, John. "An Abstraction of the Americas." Art Nexus (May-July 1999), ill. p. 108.

Puig Menetrier 2006

Puig Menetrier, Jacqueline. "Joaquim Torres-Garcia (1874-1949): du noucentisme a l'universalisme construit." Domitia (Perpignan, France), no, 7 (June 2006), ill. p. 16, as Physique.

Gradowczyk 2007

Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 177, no. 6.4

Ruiz 2016

Ruiz, Enrique Andrés. "La hora de Joaquín Torres-García." El País (Madrid), May 14, 2016, ill.

Record last updated December 16, 2017. 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. "Physique, 1929 (1929.26)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=940 (accessed on November 4, 2025).