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classification: Mural »
medium: Fresco »
year(s): 1913 »
1913.02
La Catalunya Eterna
1913
Alternate titles: La Cataluña Eterna
Fresco
142 3/16 x 284 7/8 in. (361 x 723 cm)
228 1/8 x 284 7/8 in. (579 x 723 cm)
Signed: on the lunette lower right: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated on the lunette lower left: MCMXIII
First fresco painted in the Saló de St. Jordi.

Exhibition History

1973 Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (traveling: Museo de Arte Moderno): Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Exposición Antológica Torres-García, no. 25, as Fragmented. Dated 1917.
1988 Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales: Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Joaquín Torres-García, Época Catalana (1908-1928), no. 1 and 2, ill, p. 76, and lunette p. 32-33.

Published References

de Dos 1913b: "Pinturas murales"
Jori 1913c: "Las pinturas murales de Torres-García," ill.
La Veu de Catalunya 1913d: ill. (Fragment).
Les Tendances Nouvelles 1914: (detail), p. 1523, (detail) p. 1524.
Ràfols 1927: Torres-García, ill.
Fábregas 1929: "El pintor Torres García," ill. (detail).
Luisi 1933: "Un pintor uruguayo olvidado," ill.
El Bien Público 1934b: "El Pintor Torres-García en su cátedra," ill.
Pinto 1940: "J. Torres-García: alucinación y drama de la pintura," ill. detail p. 362.
Schaefer 1945: Torres-García, ill. details 10, 11.
Podestá 1946: J. Torres-García, ill. no. XI.
Laroche 1955a: "Apuntes para un ensayo sobre la evolución de Torres-García," ill. lower portion.
Benvenuto 1959a: "Joaquín Torres-García El Pintor," ill. detail p. 6.
Marsa 1962: "Torres-García, secuestratdo y emparedado," ill. lower portion.
Marsa 1966: "Joaquín Torres-García, recuperado," ill. lower portion.
La Vanguardia Española 1966b: "Las pinturas ocultas del Salón de San Jorge," ill. lower portion.
Marsa 1968: "Las pinturas murales de Torres-García serán totalmente rescatadas," ill. lower portion.
Gich 1968a: "Los murales de Torres García," ill. details.
Gich 1968b: "Torres-Garcia, desenterrat," ill. p. 29.
Jardí 1973: Joaquín Torres-García., ill. p. 43, no. 57.
La Vanguardia 1973: "Inaguración de la Exposición Antológica de J. Torres García en el Museo de Arte Moderno," ill.
Vernazza 1973a: "Los 99 años de J.Torres García: Exposición en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid," ill.
del Castillo 1973b: "J. Torres García o el Imperio de la Razón," ill.
Clemente 1975: "La vuelta de los Torres-García de la Diputación de Barcelona," ill. pp. 12-13, as La Catalunya Eterna.
Jardí 1980: El Novecentismo Catalan, ill. p. 137, no. 108.
Pereda 1991: Joaquín Torres-García, ill. p. 48.
Sureda Pons 1993: Torres-García: La fascinació del clássic, ill. p. 105.
Sureda 1995: Catalunya genio a genio: del siglo XI al siglo XXI, ill. pp. 190, 192, as La Catalunya Eterna.
Història de la cultura catalana 1996: Història de la cultura catalana volumen VII: El Nuocentisme 1906-1918, ill. detail of lunette of fresco.
Sureda Pons 1998: Torres-García: Pasión Clásica, ill. p. 128-129; details ill. 131-135, 164, 168-69, 171, 174, 176, 186-187.
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais 2001–2002: Paris-Barcelona, de Gaudí a Miró, ill. p. 300.
García-Bermejo 2002: Joaquín Torres-García, ill. no. 9.
El País 2004a: "La desafortunada historia dels murals de Torres-García," ill. p. 3.
Rosso 2005: "Joaquín Torres-García y David Alfaro Siqueiros: una historia de encuentros y desencuentros," ill. p. 131, as La Cataluña Eterna.
Puig Menetrier 2006: "Joaquim Torres-Garcia (1874-1949): du noucentisme a l'universalisme construit," ill. p. 7, as La Catalunya Eterna.
Gradowczyk 2007: Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión, ill. p. 37, no. 1.26.
Fundação de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Colecção Berardo 2008–2009: La intuición y la estructura. De Torres-García a Vieira da Silva, ill. p. 97.
Carbajal 2011: Arte uruguayo de los maestros a nuestros días: Joaquín Torres-García, ill. p. 21.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia 2015: Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, ill. p. 20.
Acquavella Galleries 2018: The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García, ill. p. 48, as La Catalunya Eterna.
Museo Gurvich 2018: Los maestros se visitan: Joaquín Torres-García: La ciudad sin nombre, detail ill. p. 76, as La Catalunya Eterna.
Permanyer n.d.: "La humillación de Torres García," ill.

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Record last updated January 12, 2017. 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. "La Catalunya Eterna, 1913 (1913.02)." Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. http://torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=277 (accessed March 26, 2023).
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