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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Cardboard
Year: 1939
1939.36 (estate: 972)
Velázquez
1939
Oil on cardboard
18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (47 x 35 cm)
Signed lower right: JTG; dated lower left: 39
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Caracas
Private collection
Exhibitions
Galería Müller, Buenos Aires, Exposición J. Torres García, September 1942, no. 9? May be other Velázquez painting (1940.40).
Comisión Municipal de Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición J. Torres-García, August 1951, no. 165, ill.
Liceo Departamental del Treinta y Tres, Uruguay, J. Torres García, November 1955, no. 8.
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Joaquín Torres-García 28 VII-1874 – 8 VIII- 1949, August 1962, no. 2, ill.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Art of Latin America Since Independence, January 27–March 13, 1966, no. 344. Traveled to: University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, April 7–May 15, 1966; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, July 2–August 7, 1966; La Jolla Museum of Art, California, August 27–September 30, 1966.
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, October 2–November 1, 1970, no. 44, ill., p. 77. 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.
Published References
"En Paris se realizará una exposición de Joaquín Torres-García." El País (Montevideo), c. February 1953, ill.
de Torre, Guillermo. 37 Obras Comprendidas en el Período 1929-1947. Montevideo: Museo Torres García, 1959, ill.
T[orrens], M[aria] L[uisa]. "Una Versión Moderna del Retrato." El País (Montevideo), March 24, 1960, ill.
Argul. Proceso de las artes plasticas del Uruguay: desde la epoca indígena al momento contemporáneo. Montevideo: Barreiro y Ramos, 1975, ill. p. 48.
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. p. 596, no. LXIII.
Miguel Carbajal. Arte uruguayo de los maestros a nuestros días: Joaquín Torres-García. Montevideo: El País, 2011, ill. p. 63, Dated 1945.
Supplemental Images
Velázquez, 1939 (1939.36). Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, "Self-Portrait," c. 1640, oil on canvas, 17 ¾ x 15 in. (45 x 38 cm), Location: Museu de Belles Arts de València, Note: The only universally accepted self-portrait
Record last updated August 12, 2021. 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. "Velázquez, 1939 (1939.36)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1583 (accessed on March 29, 2024).