Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1942.08 (estate: 189)
Estructura en color
Alternate titles: Abstracción; Pavios
1942
Oil on canvas
28 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. (72.7 x 62 cm)
Signed lower right: JTG; dated lower left: 42
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Washington D.C.
Private collection
Exhibitions
V São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, Sala Torres-García, September–December 1959, no. 26. Traveled to: Centro de Artes y Letras de El País, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 21–April 17, 1960.
Rose Fried Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949 - 15th Memorial Exhibition, January 6–February 13, 1965, ill.
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., Different Voices: Artists from Uruguay in Washington Collections, November 4–December 3, 1988, no. 31.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 100, ill., p. 145. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., From Torres García to Soto, June 26–October 7, 1992, ill., p. 24, as Abstracción.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, Summer 1995.
Published References
de Torre, Guillermo. 37 Obras Comprendidas en el Período 1929-1947. Montevideo: Museo Torres García, 1959, ill. no. 11.
Ducan, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres García." Americas Vol. 22, No. 11-12 (November-December 1970), ill. p. 15.
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 180, as Pavios.
Peluffo, Gabriel. "Torres García in Montevideo." Art Nexus vol. 22 (Oct/Dec 1996), ill. p. 73, Dated 1943.
Societé des Expositions du Palais des Beaux Arts. Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm. Brussels, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, ill plate 33.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 266, no. 7.27.
Record last updated March 11, 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 en color, 1942 (1942.08)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1753 (accessed on April 20, 2025).