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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | CONSTRUCTIVO EN BLANCO Y NEGRO (INTI) |
paintings
81 x 102 cm (31.89 x 40.16 in)
Tempera on cardboard mounted on board
Signed with initials J.T.G and dated 38 (lower left)
Estate of the artist
Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo (acquired from the above)
Horacio Torres, Montevideo (acquired from the above)
Royal S. Marks, New York (acquired from the estate of the above and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 1989, lot 6)
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 2006
Montevideo, Museo Torres-García, 1959, no. 29
Montevideo, Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, 1962, no. 2
Buenos Aires, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella Centro de Artes Visuales, Joaquín Torres-García: Obras de museos y colecciones particulares de Montevideo y Buenos Aires, 1964, no. 6, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Montevideo, Amigos del Arte, Arte Constructivo: Joaquín Torres-García, 1965, no. 2
Houston, Meredith Long and Company & New York, Meredith Long Contemporary, Works by Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, 1977, no. 12, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Joaquín Torres-García y su visión constructiva, 1980, no. 12, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno & Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Exposición del gran pintor uruguayo Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949), 1981, no. 16, illustrated in color in the catalogue & on the cover
London, Hayward Gallery; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts & Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, 1985-87, no. 92, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Kouros Gallery, Torres-García and his Legacy, 1986, n.n.
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris & Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Le Siècle de Picasso, 1987-88, no. 60
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía & Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern Centre Julio González, 1991, J. Torres-García, no. 94, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Kunstwelten im Dialog, von Gaugin zur globalen Gegenwart, 1999-2000, no. 171, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, El Museo del Barrio, Nexus New York: Latin/American Artist in Modern Metropolis, 2009-10, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue & on the cover
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Madrid, Fundación Telefónica & Málaga, Museo Picasso, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, 2016-17, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Acquavella Galleries, White/Black, 2018, n.n.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, The Path of Modernism: From Impressionism to Today, 2019, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Enric Jardí, Joaquín Torres-García, Barcelona, 1973, fig. 297, illustrated in color p. 212
"Beyond the Fringe" in Building Design, London, January 17, 1986, illustrated in color pp. 20-21
Nissa Torrents, "Torres-García en la Hayward Gallery de Londres" in El País, Madrid, January 1986, illustrated in color n.p.
Angel Félix, "Made in Medellín, el contrabando de la imagen cultural" in Arte en Colombia, Bogotá, May 1990, no. 44, illustrated in color p. 87
Barbara Braun, "Joaquín Torres-García: The Alchemical Grid" in Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World, Ancient American Sources of Modern Art, New York, 1993, illustrated in color p. 276
César Paternosto, The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art, Austin, 1996, fig. 117, illustrated in color p. 218
Adolfo Maslach, Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano, Caracas, 1998, fig. 346, detail illustrated in color p. 573
Miguel A. Battegazzore, J. Torres-García: La trama y los signos, Montevideo, 1999, fig. 70, illustrated in color p. 81
Signed with initials J.T.G and dated 38 (lower left)
Tempera on cardboard mounted on board
31 7/8 by 40 in.
81 by 102 cm
Painted in 1938.
