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Classification: Painting
Medium: Tempera
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1933
1933.06 (estate: 572)
Estructura constructiva con línea blanca
1933
Tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard
41 x 21 1/8 in. (104.1 x 73.9 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; Dated lower right: 33
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Provenance
Estate of artist
Olimpia Torres, Montevideo
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York, New York
Royal S. Marks, New York
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
1961 Pan American Union
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.
1961–62 Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1961–January 1962, no. 14. Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 2–April 1, 1962.
1969 Royal Marks Gallery
Royal Marks Gallery, New York, J. Torres-García, Paintings, 1931 - 1946/Oceanic Art, March 29–April 26, 1969, no. 11, ill.
1970 The National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, October 2–November 1, 1970, no. 29, ill., p. 62. Traveled to: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 12, 1970–January 31, 1971; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 16–March 31, 1971.
1977 Sidney Janis Gallery
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Paintings, Reliefs & Drawings by J. Torres-García, October 4–29, 1977, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, 1978; Gimpel Fils, London, April 18–May 20, 1978 (J. Torres-García 1874-1949: The Constructivist Work).
1987 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Seis Maestros de la Pintura Uruguaya, September 15–October 15, 1987, no. 80, ill.
1993 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, June 6–September 7, 1993, no. 218, ill., p. 357. Traveled to: Plaza de Armas, Sevilla, Spain, August 11–October 12, 1992 (See separate entry); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, November 12–January 11, 1992 (See separate entry); Museum Ludwig,, Cologne, February 8–April 25, 1993 (See separate entry).
1995 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Barradas/Torres García, August–September 1995, no. 49, ill., p. 95.
Published References
Glueck 1969
Glueck, Grace. "New York Gallery Notes." Art in America (March-April 1969), ill.
The University of Texas at Austin 1974
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries. Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection. Austin: 1974. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 32 (Spanish version ill. p 37).
El Nacional 1975b
"Artes Plásticas." El Nacional (Caracas), February 9, 1975, ill.
Gradowczyk 1985
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 123, no. 94.
Pereda 1991
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 154.
Leffingwell 1993
Leffingwell, Edward. "Latin Soliloquies." Art in America (December 1993), ill.
MoMA Magazine 1993
"Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century." MoMA Magazine Summer 1993, ill. p. 5.
Schjeldahl 1993
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Southern Exposure." The Village Voice, June 22, 1993, ill. p. 87.
Búsqueda 1995
"La mejor muestra de artistas uruguayos." Búsqueda, October 5, 1995, ill. p. 49.
Maslach 1998
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. p. 456, no. 310.
Peluffo Linari 1999a
Peluffo Linari, Gabriel. Pintura Uruguaya: Breve Selección del Período 1840-1980. Buenos Aires: Capital AFAP, 1999, ill. p. 99.
Record last updated June 3, 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. "Estructura constructiva con línea blanca, 1933 (1933.06)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1380 (accessed on March 14, 2025).