Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1914.01 (estate: 488)
Arquitectura con figuras clásicas
Alternate title: Figuras clásicas
1914
Tempera on cardboard and wood with nails
7 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (55 x 62 cm)
Signed upper right: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated upper center: 1914
Provenance
Exhibitions
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Joaquín Torres-García 28 VII-1874 – 8 VIII- 1949, August 1962, no. 13, ill.
Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Retrospectiva de pinturas 1906-1949, con piezas aún no expuestas del acervo, reunidas en homenaje a Manolita, 1990, no. 2.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 4, ill., p. 41. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 33. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).
Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Joaquín Torres-García: Un Mundo Construido, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003, ill., p. 41.
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 67, ill., p. 81.
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 8. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 55. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Colomina, Manuel. "Joaquín Torres-García: El Largo Viaje a la Modernidad." Revista del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Spring-Summer 1991), ill. p. 15.
Ibarz, Merce. "Torres-García, Vanguardista hasta el Fin." La Vanguardia, August 18, 1991, ill. p. 36.
Julber-Vera, Myriam. "Torres-García: Plein Sud." MusêArt (Paris), no. 13 (September 1991), ill. p. 26.
"Joaquín Torres-García: propagandista de la modernidad." Madrid en Cinco Estrellas (1991), ill. p. 1.
Bonet, Juan Manuel. "Torres García en su Sur universal." ABC de las artes, June 20, 1991, ill. p. 126.
Galería Palatina. Joaquín Torres-García. Buenos Aires, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 4, fig. 1.
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) Centre Julio Gonzales,. Aladdin Toys, Los juguetes de Torres-García. Valencia: 1998. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 52, fig. 2.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 99, no. 4.3
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 38, fig. 8.
Torres-García, Traços de Nova York. Rio de Janeiro, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 Caixa Cultural), ill. p. 49.
The Menil Collection. Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood. Houston, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2009–10 The Menil Collection), ill. p. 43, fig. 14.
Record last updated February 24, 2016. 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. "Arquitectura con figuras clásicas, 1914 (1914.01)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=200 (accessed on May 17, 2024).