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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1920.09
Fourteenth Street
1920
Oil on board
21 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (55.5 x 45.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: J. Torres GARCIA 1920
Torres-García moved into a studio near 14th Street that he rented from the artist Walter Pach. He described the street as "the popular 14th Street, one of the most typical of New York (la popular calle 14, una de las más típicas de Nueva York)" (Historia de mi vida p. 151).
Provenance
René Gimpel, Paris
III Subasta Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela, February 15, 1977, lot 23, ill.
Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc., New York, December 14, 1976, Modern & Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, lot 16, ill.
Private collection, New York
Galería Estudio Actual, Caracas
Collection Clara Diament Sujo, New York
Sotheby's New York, New York, May 25, 2011, Latin American Art, lot 49, ill. p. 34 and cover.
Colección Eduardo F. Costantini, Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
1921 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Later Tendencies in Art, April 16–May 15, 1921, no. 44, Exhibited in the north corridor.1927 Galerie Carmine
Galerie Carmine, Paris, J. Torres-García, June 16–30, 1927, no. 22.1988–89 Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, The Latin American Spirit: Arts and Artist in the United States 1920-1970, September 29, 1988–January 29, 1989, no. 74, ill., on cover and p. 112, Dated 1924. Traveled to: El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, February 27–April 23, 1989; San Diego Museum of Art, California, May 22–July 16, 1989; Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 14–October 8, 1989; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, January 28–March 4, 1990.1995 CDS Gallery
CDS Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García, May 10–June 24, 1995.1996 Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, To be Modern: American Encounters with Cezanne & Co., June 15–September 29, 1996, ill., frontispiece.1997b CDS Gallery
CDS Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: Paintings, Constructions, Drawings from 1920-1943, October 17–November 29, 1997.2000 CDS Gallery
CDS Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: Paintings, Drawings, Books, In Memory of Royal S. Marks and Herb Gower, May 29–July 29, 2000.2007 CDS Gallery
CDS Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: Painting & Drawings, 1920-1942, March 23–June 9, 2007, ill., on cover.2009–10 El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio, New York, Nexus New York: Latin/American Artist in the Modern Metropolis, October 17, 2009–February 28, 2010. (El Museo del Barrio 2010), ill., on cover and p. 111.2010 Caixa Cultural
Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Torres-García, Traços de Nova York, May 1–June 13, 2010. (Caixa Cultural 2010), ill., p. 90. Traveled to: Museo Torres García, Montevideo, 2010–11.2012 MFAH
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from MALBA-Fundación Costantini, April 22–August 5, 2012, ill., p. 73.2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 45, fig. 15. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.Published References
Rothstein 2009
Rothstein, Edward. "Currents Flow Two Ways in Pan-American City, U.S.A." The New York Times, October 16, 2009, ill.Record last updated October 21, 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. "Fourteenth Street, 1920 (1920.09)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=387 (accessed on April 20, 2024).