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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1943.38 (estate: 879)
Constructivo de cinco colores con locomotora
1943
Oil on cardboard
22 x 27 in. (55.5 x 68 cm)
Signed lower right: JTG 43
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Olimpia Torres, Montevideo
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Galerie Melki, Paris
Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc., New York, June 13, 1978, lot 51, ill.
Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 12, 1983, lot 31, ill.
Royal S. Marks Gallery, 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 16, ill.
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
1961–62 Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1961–January 1962, no. 32. Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 2–April 1, 1962.Published References
Gradowczyk 1985
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 82, no. 60.Fonseca 2023
Fonseca, Raphael. Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2023, ill. p. 305, as Constructivo de cinco colores con locomotora.Record last updated April 3, 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. "Constructivo de cinco colores con locomotora, 1943 (1943.38)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1903 (accessed on April 20, 2025).