Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres

Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti

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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: Canvas

Year: 1932

1932.22

Composition

1932

Oil on canvas

28 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. (72.4 x 60 cm)

Signed lower center: J. Torres GARCIA; dated lower right: 32

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (Gift of Jon N. Streep through the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation) (ACC. #72. 296)

Provenance

Galerie Pierre, Paris

Private collection

Jon Streep, New York

Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation (Gift from Jon N. Streep, New York)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Exhibitions

1974–75 Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Inaugural Exhibition, October 4, 1974–September 15, 1975, no. 427, ill., p. 306 and p. 754.

1992 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera; Joaquín Torres-García; Wifredo Lam; Matta, June 11–September 7, 1992, no. 34, ill., p. 135.

Published References

Fletcher 1996

Fletcher, Valerie. "Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Composition." In Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, ill. p. 50.

Kirsh and Levenson 2000

Kirsh Andrea and Rustin S. Levenson. Seeing Through Paintings, Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, ill. p. 184, no. 194.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection 2022

Aquin, Stéphane, Anne Reeve, and Sandy Guttman. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022, no. 66, ill. p. 86, as Composition.

Supplemental Images

X-ray study from Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art History

Record last updated May 29, 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. "Composition, 1932 (1932.22)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1132 (accessed on May 18, 2024).