Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1937.20 (estate: 35)
Composición abstracta tubular
1937
Tempera on board
31 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (80.7 x 101.2 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 37
Provenance
Exhibitions
V São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, Sala Torres-García, September–December 1959, no. 17. Traveled to: Centro de Artes y Letras de El País, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 21–April 17, 1960.
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, December 1962, no. 17.
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 18 works by Joaquín Torres-García, September 18–October 6, 1971.
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Works by Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, April 14–30, 1977, no. 35. Traveled to: Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, November 12–December 1, 1977.
Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 88, ill., p. 74. Traveled to: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, March 13–May 4, 1986; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28–August 17, 1986; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 14–November 9, 1986; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, February 14–April 5, 1987.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 89, ill., p. 134. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Fundação Arpad Szènès – Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal, J. Torres-García, obra constructivista, May 9–July 21, 1996, no. 15, ill.
Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, J.Torres-García, obra constructiva, August–September 1996, no. 20, ill.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Autumn 1998, no. 5.
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm, June 29–September 16, 2001, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, October 18, 2001–June 1, 2002 (Abstracción: el paradigma amerindio).
Fundación Caixa Girona, Spain, Torres-García Darrere la mascara constructiva, November 15, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 74. Traveled to: Can Palauet i Museu de Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, January 19–February 17, 2008.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, Constructed Dialogues: Concrete, Geometric and Kinetic Art from the Latin American Art Collection, September 15, 2012–January 6, 2013.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 153. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
de Torre, Guillermo. 37 Obras Comprendidas en el Período 1929-1947. Montevideo: Museo Torres García, 1959, ill. no. 3.
Exposición Antológica Torres-García. Madrid: Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, 1973. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 41. Reproduced sideways.
Vernazza, Eduardo. "Los 99 años de J.Torres García: Exposición en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid." El Día, July 29, 1973, ill.
Castedo, Leopoldo. Historia del arte iberoamericano: Siglo XIX y Siglo XX. Tomo II. Madrid: Alianza, 1992, ill. p. 286, no. 369.
Braun, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres-García: The Alchemical Grid." In Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World, Ancient American Sources of Modern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993, ill. p. 250.
Paternosto, César. The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art. Translated by Esther Allen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996, ill. p. 219, no. 119.
Kaufman, Jason Edward. "Major Latin American Research Project Launched." The Art Newspaper, no. 150 (September 2004), ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America. Houston, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 156, no. 84.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p 262, no 7.21.
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 62.
Dorfman, John. "Latin American Original." Art & Antiques XXXVII (November 2014), ill. p. 86.
Sullivan, Edward J. Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2018, fig. 7.5, ill. p. 232, as Composición abstracta tubular.
Record last updated January 7, 2020. 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. "Composición abstracta tubular, 1937 (1937.20)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1481 (accessed on April 19, 2025).