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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
1931.38
Constructivo en colores
1931
Oil on canvas
30 1/2 x 23 in. (77.5 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower center: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 31
Private collection, Washington D.C.
Provenance
E. Tériade, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Christie's New York, November 24, 1997, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Colonial Works of Art, lot 12, ill. p. 33.
Eduardo Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Collection Eduardo Costantini
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 16, 2005, Latin American Art, lot 15, ill. p. 41.
Private collection, Washington D.C.
Exhibitions
1998a Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, A Coleçao Costantini, May 1998, ill., p. 163.1999 Fundación La Caixa
Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, Claves del Arte Latinoamericano, Colección Costantini, April 16–June 6, 1999.2001 MALBA
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Arte en América Latina, September 21–November 18, 2001, no. 33.2003 MALBA
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Visiones, February 23–May 26, 2003.2004–05 MALBA
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires, Arte latinoamericano siglo XX, August 27, 2004–May 2005.Published References
Fundación Eduardo Costantini 1998
A coleçao Costantini no MAM Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Fundación Eduardo Costantini, 1998, ill. p. 203.Cirlot 2000
Cirlot, Lourdes. "Agenda cultural de lectores, arte español e hispanoamericano del siglo XX." Círculo de Lectores (January 2000), ill.Costantini, Arteaga, and Pachecho 2001
Costantini, Eduardo F., Agustin Arteaga and Marcelo E. Pacheco. MALBA-Colección Costantini. Mexico: Landucci, 2001, ill. p. 138.de Torres 2001
de Torres, Cecilia. "Pilgrimage to the sources of Amerindian art." In Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm. Brussels: Societé des Expositions du Palais des Beaux Arts, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 251, fig. 4.Record last updated April 7, 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. "Constructivo en colores, 1931 (1931.38)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1061 (accessed on March 14, 2025).