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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1940
1940.27
Napoleón
1940
Oil on cardboard
23 5/8 x 15 3/8 in. (60 x 39 cm)
Signed and dated upper left: J. Torres-GARCIA 40
Provenance
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
1964 Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres-García: Obras de museos y colecciones particulares de Montevideo y Buenos Aires, November 4–29, 1964, no. 31.
1970 The National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, October 2–November 1, 1970, no. 48, ill., p. 79. 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 Galería Palatina
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres García, August–October 1977, no. 11.
1979 Museu de Arte São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Museu de Arte São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Joaquín Torres-García (Montevideu 1874- 1949), September–October 1979, ill., p. 34. Traveled to: Galeria Jean Boghici, Rio de Janeiro, November–December 1979.
1987 Galería Palatina
Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres García, May 1987, no. 3, Dated 1948.
1995 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Barradas/Torres García, August–September 1995, no. 67.
Published References
Payró 1964
Payró, Julio. Pinacoteca de los Genios: Torres García. No. 118. Buenos Aires: Codex, 1964, ill. no IX.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 295, no. 7.65.
Supplemental Images
Napoleón, 1940 (1940.27). Jacques-Louis David, "The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries," 1812, oil on canvas, 80 x 49 in. (204 x 125 cm), Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Jacques-Louis David, "The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries," 1812, oil on canvas, 80 x 49 in. (204 x 125 cm), Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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. "Napoleón, 1940 (1940.27)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1648 (accessed on April 20, 2025).