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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Year: 1930
1930.17
Cabeza (Head)
Alternate title: Composition
1930
Oil on canvas
13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (34.9 x 27 cm)
Signed and dated upper left: JTG; dated upper right: 30
Signed and dated on verso: J.Torres GARCIA, 30
Exhibitions
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, Peintures de Torrès-García, January 30–February 14, 1931.
Gallery of Living Art, New York, The A.E Gallatin Collection, December 1933, as Composition.
Gallery of Living Art, New York, The A.E Gallatin Collection, 1937, no. 129, as Cabeza (Head).
Gallery of Living Art, New York, The A.E Gallatin Collection, 1940, no. 128.
Pan American Union, District of Columbia, Joaquín Torres-García of Uruguay, April 19–May 5, 1961. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, California, July 13–August 15, 1961; Wells College, Macmillan Hall, Aurora, New York, October 15–November 15, 1961.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1961–January 1962. (Only exhibited at Baden-Baden). Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 2–April 1, 1962.
Published References
"Exposición retrospectiva de Joaquín Torres García en Baden-Baden, Alemania." Boletín de Musica y Artes Visuales, Pan American Union, Washington D.C. (January–June 1962), ill, p. 88.
Torres-García, Joaquín. Universalismo Constructivo. Vol. 5. Madrid: Alianza, 1984, ill. p. 225, no. 1.
The Menil Collection. Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood. Houston, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2009–10 The Menil Collection), ill. p. 89, fig. 25.
Record last updated May 14, 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. "Cabeza (Head), 1930 (1930.17)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=966 (accessed on March 28, 2024).