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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1943.35
Composición constructiva no. 16
Alternate title: Constructive Painting 16
1943
Oil on cardboard
17 x 25 5/16 in. (43.2 x 64.1 cm)
Signed upper left: JTG; dated upper right: 43
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Royal S. Marks Gallery Ltd., New York
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 20, 1989, Twenty Works by Joaquin Torres-Garcia from the Estate of Royal S. Marks, lot 15, ill.
Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris
Christie's New York, May 28, 1997, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, lot 6, ill. p. 31.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Exhibitions
1950 Sidney Janis Gallery
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. 8.8Taylor 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).