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Classification: Toys

Medium: Oil

Support: Wood

Year: 1928

T4.612

Pueblo

Alternate titles: A set of wooden toys; Le Village

c.1928–29

Oil on wood
12 pieces

4 5/16 x 18 1/2 x 6 11/16 in. (11 x 47 x 17 cm)

Original box: 7 7/8 x 10 x 1 3/16 in. (20 x 25.5 x 3.1 cm)

Provenance

Private collection

Christie's, New York, May 17, 1989, lot 125, ill. p. 143.

Private collection

Christie's, New York, May 28, 1997, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, lot 115, ill. p. 168.

Private Collection, New York

Daniela Chappard Foundation, New York

Sotheby's, New York, May 15, 2018, Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, lot 173.

Private collection

Sotheby's, New York, March 5, 2024, Modern Discoveries, lot 1318.

Private collection

Exhibitions

1997–98 IVAM

Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, Aladdin Toys, Los juguetes de Torres-García, September 18, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 91, ill., p. 171. Traveled to: La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1998.

2002–03 Museo Colecciones ICO

Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 145.

2006 Espace Bellevue

Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France, Passion et raison d'un esprit constructif: Une Conquete de l'Art D'Amerique Latine: Oeuvres de la Fundación Daniela Chappard, June 27–September 30, 2006, no. 28, ill., p. 50, as Le Village.

2010–11 Museo Picasso

Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, Toys of the Avant-Garde, October 2010–January 2011. (Museo Picasso Málaga 2011), ill., p. 290, 370.

Published References

Lucie-Smith 1993

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Latin American Art of the 20th Century. London: Thames & Hudson, 1993, no. 62, ill. p. 80, as A set of wooden toys.

Supplemental Images

Model for Aladdin Toys by J. Torres García, c. 1930
Placed on the reverse of the box top

Record last updated March 30, 2018. 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. "Pueblo, c.1928–29 (T4.612)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2195 (accessed on April 26, 2024).