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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1944

1944.32 (estate: 902)

Composición

1944

Oil on cardboard

9 13/16 x 13 in. (25 x 33 cm)

Signed and dated lower right: JTG 44

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Rose Fried Gallery, New York

Private collection of Emilio Ellena, Santiago

Estate of Emilio Ellena, Santiago

By descent to Private collection

Christie's New York, May 29, 2013, Latin American Sale, lot 10, ill. p. 31.

Private collection, São Paulo

Phillips, New York, May 24, 2017, Latin America, lot 8, ill.

Private collection

Exhibitions

1950 Pan American Union

Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., Torres-García and his Workshop, February 2–March 13, 1950.

1965 Rose Fried Gallery

Rose Fried Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949 - 15th Memorial Exhibition, January 6–February 13, 1965, ill.

1994 Corporación Cultural de las Condes

Corporación Cultural de las Condes, Santiago, Chile, Joaquín Torres-García, April 7–24, 1994, ill.

Published References

Schaefer 1945

Schaefer, Claude. Torres-García. Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1945, ill. plate II.

Jardí 1973

Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1973, ill. p. 249, no. 364.

Bindis 1994

Bindis, Ricardo. "El constructivismo de Torres-García." La Tercera (Santiago, Chile), April 17, 1994, ill.

Maslach 1998

Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 579, no. 378.

Sanguinetti 1999

Sanguinetti, Julio Maria. "Joaquín Torres-García: El lenguaje de las cosas y del mundo." Clásica: Arte & Cultura (Buenos Aires), no. 134 (October 1999), ill. p. 73.

Record last updated June 29, 2017. 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, 1944 (1944.32)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1835 (accessed on April 20, 2025).