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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Wood panel
Year: 1943
1943.66
Pintura constructiva "Hoy"
1943
Oil on wood panel
29 x 30 1/2 in. (73.5 x 77 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: J.TG 43
Exhibitions
Salón Municipal de Exposiciones, Montevideo, Uruguay, Homenaje de la Ciudad de Montevideo al Maestro J. Torres García: El Constructivismo Universal y su Derrotero Uruguayo, December 1969, no. 7. Traveled to: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, May 1970.
Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García, July 1974, no. 123.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera; Joaquín Torres-García; Wifredo Lam; Matta, June 11–September 7, 1992, no. 46, ill., p. 144.
Published References
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 205.
Miguel Carbajal. Arte uruguayo de los maestros a nuestros días: Joaquín Torres-García. Montevideo: El País, 2011, ill. p. 52.
Fló, Juan. "Torres García." In Geometrales 2009/2010: obras de la colección del MNAV, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. Montevideo, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 35, no. 5.
Supplemental Images
Pintura constructiva
Image of Pintura constructiva "Hoy," 1943, reproduced on a five peso Uruguayan bill that circulated until early 2008.
Record last updated May 1, 2020. 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. "Pintura constructiva "Hoy", 1943 (1943.66)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1931 (accessed on April 28, 2024).