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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: On cardboard
Year: 1947
1947.08 (estate: 228)
Puerto perspectiva
1947
Oil on cardboard
16 3/16 x 19 1/8 in. (41 x 48.5 cm)
Signed lower left: JTG; dated lower right: 47
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Horacio Torres
Estate of Horacio Torres
Sotheby's New York, New York, May 20, 1992, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints, lot 25A.
Sotheby's New York, New York, November 23, 1993, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints, lot 216, ill.
Exhibitions
1951 Comisión Municipal de Cultura
Comisión Municipal de Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición J. Torres-García, August 1951, no. 50.
1955 Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle
Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris, Joaquín Torres García, November–December 1955, no. 64.
1958 Museo Torres-García
Museo Torres-García, Montevideo, Uruguay, February 1958, no. 4.
1959 V São Paulo Bienal
V São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, Sala Torres-García, September–December 1959, no. 37. Traveled to: Centro de Artes y Letras de El País, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 21–April 17, 1960.
Published References
de Torre 1959
de Torre, Guillermo. 37 Obras Comprendidas en el Período 1929-1947. Montevideo: Museo Torres García, 1959, ill. no. 32.
El Plata 1962
"La Pintura de Torres García." El Plata (Montevideo), July 15, 1962, ill.
El País 1963a
"Ante los Grandes Temas Nacionales: Museo de Arte Moderno." El País (Montevideo), September 8, 1963, ill. p. 7.
Record last updated April 13, 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. "Puerto perspectiva, 1947 (1947.08)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2064 (accessed on April 20, 2025).