Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres

Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti

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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1946

1946.41 (estate: 66)

Saint Cergue (Haute Savoie)

Alternate title: Paisaje de Bélgica

c.1946

Oil on cardboard

16 1/8 x 14 13/16 in. (41 x 37.5 cm)

Signed lower left: JTG; undated

In Historia de Mi Vida Torres-García relates that he and his family spent the summer of 1912 in "un pueblecito llamado Saint Cergues."

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Horacio Torres

Estate of Horacio Torres

Private collection, New York

Exhibitions

1951 Instituto de Arte Moderno

Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Joaquin Torres-García, Pinturas, April 1951, no. 6, ill., p. 2, as Paisaje de Bélgica, Dated 1948.

Published References

El Plata 1953

"Exposición de Obras de Torres García en Paris." El Plata (Montevideo), February 26, 1953, ill.

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. "Saint Cergue (Haute Savoie), c.1946 (1946.41)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2119 (accessed on April 20, 2025).