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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1932
1932.38 (estate: 359)
Constructif a double ligne
1932
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 19 1/4 in. (81 x 49 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres GARCIA; dated lower right: 32
Private collection
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Galería Estudio Actual, Caracas
Adolfo M. Maslach, Caracas
Estate of Adolfo M. Maslach
Private collection
Exhibitions
1959 Museo Torres-García
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 1959, no. 7.
1973 Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Exposición Antológica Torres-García, April–May 1973, no. 77. Traveled to: Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain, June 1973.
1997 Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas
Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela, La Colección de Adolfo Maslach -Visión de una Poética Constructiva, May–August 1997, no. 30, ill., p. 27 (on page, mislabeled no 29).
1999 Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia, Joaquín Torres-García: armonías y resonancias, April–June 1999.
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. 136. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Jardí 1974
Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1974, ill. p. 183, no. 246.
Maslach 1998
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 370, no. XLVI.
Fló 2006
Fló, Juan. "Joaquín Torres García y el arte prehispánico." In Imaginarios Prehispánicos en el Arte Uruguayo:1870-1970, Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena. Montevideo, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 57, fig. 4.
Record last updated October 20, 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. "Constructif a double ligne, 1932 (1932.38)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1148 (accessed on April 20, 2025).