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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1942
1942.06 (estate: 540)
Constructive City with Universal Man (Ciudad constructiva con hombre universal)
Alternate title: Ciudad constructiva con hombre universal (Constructive City with Universal Man)
1942
Oil on cardboard
31 7/16 x 40 in. (79.9 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: JTG; dated center: 1942
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Partial gift, Mr. and Mrs. James Rudel, 1984) (84.3167)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Manolita Piña de Torres-García, Montevideo
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Exhibitions
1955 Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris, Joaquín Torres García, November–December 1955, no. 42.
1983–84 Arnold Herstand & Company
Arnold Herstand & Company, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: 1874-1949, Late Paintings, November 29, 1983–January 28, 1984, ill.
Published References
Haedo 1944
Haedo, Oscar F. "Un Pintor Constructivista: Joaquín Torres García." Correo Literario (June 15, 1944), ill. p. 5.
Castedo 1988
Castedo, Leopoldo. Historia del arte iberoamericano. Vol. 2. Santiago, Chile: Alianza, 1988, ill. no. 366.
Craven 1991
Craven, David. "Abstract Expressionism and Third World Art: A 'Post-Colonial Approach to 'American' Art." Oxford Art Journal vol. 14, no. 1 (1991), ill. p. 52.
Timpano 2013
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States. Timpano, Nathan J. Coral Gables: University of Miami, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 33, as Ciudad constructiva con hombre universal (Constructive City with Universal Man).
Brownlee et al 2015
Brownlee, Peter John, Valéria Piccoli, and Georgiana Uhlyarik. Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, ill. p. 216, as Ciudad constructiva con hombre universal (Constructive City with Universal Man).
Record last updated January 18, 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. "Constructive City with Universal Man (Ciudad constructiva con hombre universal), 1942 (1942.06)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1751 (accessed on April 20, 2025).