Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Joaquín Torres García, April 3–22, 1950, ill. Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, June 19–July 2, 1950.

1977 Sidney Janis Gallery

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Paintings, Reliefs & Drawings by J. Torres-García, October 4–29, 1977, no. 36, ill. Traveled to: Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, 1978; Gimpel Fils, London, April 18–May 20, 1978 (J. Torres-García 1874-1949: The Constructivist Work).

1985–86b Hayward Gallery

Hayward Gallery, London, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo 1924-1944, November 14, 1985–February 23, 1986, no. 120, ill., p. 99, as Constructive Painting 16. Traveled to: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, March 13–May 4, 1986; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28–August 17, 1986; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, September 14–November 9, 1986; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, February 14–April 5, 1987.

1990 Galerie Marwan Hoss

Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, Hommage a Torres-García: Oeuvres de 1928 à 1948, May 30–July 20, 1990, ill., p. 59.

2001 Fogg Art Museum

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, March 3–November 4, 2001.

2003 MNAV

Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Geo-Metrías, Abstracción Geométrica Latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros, July 3–October 25, 2003, ill., p. 31 and 70. Traveled to: Museo del Arte Latinoamerica de Buenos Aires (MALBA), March 14–May 19, 2003.

2005 Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá

Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, Diálogos/Diálogos, Arte Latinoamericano desde la Colección Cisneros, May 5–June 29, 2005, no. 11, ill., p. 72. Traveled to: Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, July 22–September 26, 2004; Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 25–February 28, 2004.

2006 Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes

Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Cruce de Miradas. Visiones de América Latina en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, August 2–October 21, 2006.

2007 The Blanton Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collections, February 20–April 22, 2007, ill., p. 92. Traveled to: Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, September 12–December 8, 2007.

2011 Ibere Camargo Foundation

Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 156-57. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.

2014 Royal Academy of Arts

Royal Academy of Arts, London, Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, July 5–September 28, 2014, no. 4, ill., p. 77.

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., p. 177. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.

2018 Moderna Museet

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Concrete Matters, February 24–March 13, 2018.

Published References

Lavagna 1945

Lavagna, John. "Joaquín Torres García. Una visión del artista y de su obra." El Colegio (Montevideo), no. 7 (August 1945), ill.

de Szyszlo 1959–60

"Contemporary Latin American Painting. A Brief Survey." College Art Journal vol. 19, no. 2 (Winter 1959-1960), ill. p. 139.

Gradowczyk 1985

Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 137, no. 108.

Baron 1990

Baron, Jeanine. "Une Exposition-Hommage Torres-Garcia; L'Abstraction Obstinée." La Croix (Paris), July 3, 1990, ill.

Fogg Art Museum 2001

Fogg Art Museum. Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Cambridge, MA, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 48, fig. 12.

Revista de Ciencia y Tecnología Americana 2004

"INTERCIENCIA." Revista de Ciencia y Tecnología Americana (Caracas) vol. 29, no. 3 (2004), ill. p. 106.

Gradowczyk 2007

Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 307, no. 8.8

Taylor 2022

Taylor, Brandon. Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, no. 13.12, ill. p. 226, as Constructive Painting 16.

Zemborain 2022

Lila Zemborain. Temporales. New York: NYU Reprographics, Logistics & Distribution Services, 2022, ill. p. 75, as Composición constructiva no. 16.

Record last updated October 20, 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. "Composición constructiva no. 16, 1943 (1943.35)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1900 (accessed on April 20, 2025).