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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: Cardboard
Year: 1945
1945.02 (estate: 690)
Constructivo en cinco tonos
Alternate title: Homo Sapiens
1945
Oil on cardboard
21 1/4 x 33 1/2 in. (54 x 85 cm cm)
Unsigned; dated upper middle: 1945
The letters "BA" near the figure's hands refers to the "bomba atómica/atomic bomb."
Private collection, Barcelona
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Ifigenia Torres, Montevideo
Private collection, Barcelona
Edmund Peel & Asociados, Madrid, Spain, April 28, 1992, Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, lot 5, ill.
Christie's New York, May 31, 2007, Latin American Sale, lot 32, ill. p. 64.
Private collection, Barcelona
Exhibitions
1964 Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Joaquín Torres-García: Obras de museos y colecciones particulares de Montevideo y Buenos Aires, November 4–29, 1964, no. 17.
1973 Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Exposición Antológica Torres-García, April–May 1973, ill., p. 119 no. 113. Traveled to: Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain, June 1973.
1976 Galería Dau al Set
Galería Dau al Set, Barcelona, Spain, J. Torres-García (1874-1949), November 1976, no. 78, ill.
Published References
Argul 1973
Argul, Jose Pedro. "La irrupción de Torres-García en su país." Mundo Hispánico (Madrid) No. 301 (April 1973), ill. p. 39.
Blanco y Negro 1973
"Torres García, desde la raíz del constructivismo." Blanco y Negro (Madrid) (April 28, 1973), ill. p. 77.
Jardí 1973
Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1973, ill. p. 256, no. 371.
Cabanas 1975
Cabanas, Juan. "El Pez de Torres-García." Mundo Hispánico (Madrid) "Extraordinario Dedicado al Pintor Torres-García," (May 1975), ill. p. 47.
Montealegre 1984
Montealegre, Samuel. "Alcuni Il Regno dell'universale Costruttivo, Joaquín Torres García." Terzoocchio (Bologna) anno XII, no. 4 (33) (Diciembre 1984), ill. p. 51.
Maslach 1998
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 579, no. 377.
The Menil Collection 2010
The Menil Collection. Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood. Houston, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2009–10 The Menil Collection), ill. p. 222.
Record last updated April 8, 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 en cinco tonos, 1945 (1945.02)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2000 (accessed on March 29, 2024).