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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Cardboard
Year: 1937
1937.37 (estate: 50)
Composición universal
Alternate titles: Grafismo universal sobre fondo gris; Universal Composition (Universal Art)
1937
Oil on cardboard
42 x 33 1/2 in. (106.5 x 85 cm)
Signed lower left: J.T.G.; dated lower right: 1937
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre de création industrielle (Donation by the estate of the artist, 1956)
Exhibitions
1940 Amigos del Arte
Amigos del Arte, Montevideo, Uruguay, 8a. Exposición de la Asociación de Arte Constructivo, October 1940, ill.
1955 Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris, Joaquín Torres García, November–December 1955, no. 16, ill., on cover.
1975 Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Torres-García: Construction et Symboles, June 11–August 1975, no. 40, ill. did not travel. Traveled to: Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8–July 22, 1978 (América Latina Geometria Sensível).
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. 42, ill., p. 142.
1992–93 Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Art d'Amérique latine: 1911- 1968, November 12, 1992–January 11, 1993, ill., p. 328.
1996a Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva
Fundação Arpad Szènès – Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal, J. Torres-García, obra constructivista, May 9–July 21, 1996, no. 12, ill.
1996 Museo de Pontevedra
Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, J.Torres-García, obra constructiva, August–September 1996, no. 16, ill.
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. 208, did not travel. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).
2002–03 Museu do Chiado/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporân
Museu do Chiado/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal, Rétrospective Joaquín Torres-García, October 15, 2002–January 15, 2003.
2003–04 Museo Picasso
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 270, ill., p. 276.
2006 The Museum of Art, Ehime
The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, Modigliani, Picasso et leur temps - Collections du Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole 1900-1950, April 20–June 4, 2006, no. 59, ill., p. 100. Traveled to: Hiroshima Museum of Art, June 10–July 16, 2006; The Akita Museum of Modern Art, Japan, July 22–August 27, 2006; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, September 2–October 22, 2006; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan, November 18, 2006–January 14, 2007; Daimaru Museum, Umeda, January 18–February 4, 2007; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, Japan, April 20–May 20, 2007.
2007–08 Musée Matisse
Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, Georges Vantongerloo, October 27, 2007–February 26, 2008.
2013–15 Musée national d'arte moderne
Musée national d'arte moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Modernités plurielles de 1905 à 1970, October 23, 2013–January 26, 2015, ill., 84.
2021 Louvre Abu Dhabi
(in collaboration with Centre Pompidou), Louvre Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Abstraction and Calligraphy - Towards a Universal Language, February 17–June 12, 2021, as Universal Composition (Universal Art).
Published References
Círculo y Cuadrado 1938
Círculo y Cuadrado (Montevideo), no. 6 (March 1938), ill.
Alfar 1940
"Exposición Taller." Paso a Nivel. Alfar (Montevideo) (1940), ill.
Organización de los Estados Americanos, Unión Panamericana 1956
Organización de los Estados Americanos, Unión Panamericana, Washington D.C. Boletín de Música y Artes Visuales, no. 71-72-73 (January-March 1956), ill.
Plazy 1975
Plazy, Gilles. "Torres-Garcia, le grand constructeur." Unknown publication, July 6, 1975, ill.
Gradowczyk 1985
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 63, no. 42.
Gauville 1992
Gauville, Hervé. "L'Amérique Latine sur Le plat." Libération (Paris), December 1, 1992, ill.
Herrera 1992
Herrera, Hayden. "The pioneer spirit." Harper's Bazaar (June 1992), ill.
Lawrence 1992
Lawrence, Sidney. "Legado Latinoamericano: Cuatro Pioneros Que Nutrieron el Arte Moderno." El Bohemio News (San Francisco), June 17, 1992, ill.
Paez Mullan 1992
Paez Mullan, Anthony. "New World Modernists." Antiques & Fine Art (May/June 1992), ill.
Mujica 1992a
Mujica, Barbara. "Los Hitos del Modernismo." Américas vol. 44, no. 2 (1992), ill. p. 31.
Mujica 1992b
Mujica, Barbara. "A Turning Point in Modernism." Américas (1992), ill. p. 31.
Repetition generale/Ensayo general 1995
"Construcción." Repetition generale/Ensayo general (Chile) 1995, ill. detail p. 14.
Curtil 1998
Torrès-García– Composition Universelle. L'Art en Jeu. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998, ill.
Fundación ICO 2002
Fundación ICO. Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido. Madrid, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 22.
Serra 2003
Serra, Catalina. "El Museo Picasso revisa el paso del clasicismo a la abstracción en la obra de Torres-García." El País (Cataluña), November 25, 2003, ill. p. 33, as Grafismo universal sobre fondo gris.
Centre Pompidou 2006
Collection art moderne. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2006, ill. p. 597.
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. 18, as Composición universal.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p 281, no. 7.44.
Fundación Caixa Girona 2008
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 65, fig. 11.
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González 2009
De Torres-García a Vieira da Silva 1929-1949: La intuición y la escultura. Valencia, Spain: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, 2009. Exhibition catalogue (2009b IVAM), ill. p. 114.
LACMA 2011–2012
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space. Los Angeles, 2011-2012. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 36.
Sotheby's 2014
Sotheby's. Latin American Art Modern & Contemporary. New York, May 2014.
Gamwell 2016
Gamwell, Lynn. Mathematics + Art: A Cultural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, ill. p. 415, fig. 11-34.
Chaves 2021
Chaves, Alexandra. "Last Chance to See; Highlights from Louvre Abu Dhabi's Show on Abstraction and Calligraphy." The National, June 6, 2021, ill., as Universal Composition (Universal Art).
Supplemental Images
Composición universal, 1937 (1937.37). A tapestry of this work was created by MAOTIMA, a group of women artists at the Taller Torres-García composed of Manolita, Otilia, Ifigenia, and Maria Angélica.
A tapestry of this work was created by MAOTIMA, a group of women artists at the Taller Torres-García composed of Manolita, Otilia, Ifigenia, and Maria Angélica.
Record last updated June 8, 2021. 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. "Composición universal, 1937 (1937.37)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1497 (accessed on March 28, 2024).