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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Year: 1944
1944.34
Monumento
c.1944
Incised lapacho wood
Lapacho wood is a hardwood native to South America
53 x 39 1/4 x 2 in. (134.6 x 100.3 x 5.1 cm)
Photography credit: Arturo Sanchez
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Estate of Horacio Torres
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
1970 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Universalismo Constructivo: Joaquín Torres García 1874-1949, May 1970, I.
1974 Museo de Arte Precolombino
Museo de Arte Precolombino, Colección Matto, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición Homenaje a Joaquín Torres-García: Juguetes, Objetos de Arte, Maderas, October 1974, no. 77, "Realizado según dibujos del artista (realized according to drawings by the artist)".
2001 Palais des Beaux Arts
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Abstraction: the Amerinidian Paradigm, June 29–September 16, 2001, no. 39. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, October 18, 2001–June 1, 2002 (Abstracción: el paradigma amerindio).
2006 Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, Line-Plane-Volume/Sculpture: 1944-2006, Autumn 2006.
2009–10 The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection, Houston, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010. (Ramírez 2009); (The Menil Collection 2010), no. 94, ill., p. 83. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, February 20–May 3, 2010.
2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill. Undated. "Made after a drawing by Joaquín Torres-García". Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
2023–24 Fundación Juan March
Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Antes de América. Fuentes originarias en la cultura moderna, October 6, 2023–March 10, 2024, as Monumento.
Published References
Torres-García 1944a
Torres-García, Joaquín. Universalismo Constructivo. Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1944, ill. p. 271.
Gilbert et al 2021
Gilbert, Zanna, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk. Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021, fig. 7, ill. p. 19 and ill. on back cover, as Monumento.
ArtNexus 2024
Rodríguez Campo, Elisa. "Before America. Original Sources in Modern Culture: Fundación Juan March, Madrid." ArtNexus 122 (June 2024), ill. p. 124, as Monumento.
Supplemental Images
Monumento, c.1944 (1944.34). Preliminary drawing illustrated in the artist's book, Universalismo Constructivo (1944)
Preliminary drawing illustrated in the artist's book, Universalismo Constructivo (1944)
Record last updated July 21, 2023. 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. "Monumento, c.1944 (1944.34)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1846 (accessed on April 19, 2025).