Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1920.03
Business Town
Alternate titles: Calle de Nueva York; Paisaje de Nueva York; Synthèse de New York
1920
Oil on cardboard
18 x 23 in. (45.7 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 1920
Provenance
Roberto Sapriza, Montevideo
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Later Tendencies in Art, April 16–May 15, 1921, no. 24, as Business Town, Exhibited in Gallery I.
Whitney Studio Club, New York, Stuart Davis, J. Torres-García, Stanilaw Szukalski, April 25–May 15, 1921.
Galerie Carmine, Paris, J. Torres-García, June 16–30, 1927, no. 2, as Synthèse de New York.
Galerie Pierre, Paris, Oeuvres Récentes de Torrès García: Peintures - Sculptures, March 4–18, 1932.
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, December 1962, no. 85, ill.
Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, Torres-García, New York 1920-1922, September 23–October 13, 1987. (Philippe Briet 1987).
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, J. Torres-García, June 18–August 21, 1991, no. 18, ill., p. 57. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Spain, September 5–November 10, 1991.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Barradas/Torres García, August–September 1995, no. 11, ill., p. 77.
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, A Coleçao Costantini, May 1998, ill., p. 75.
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Arte en América Latina, September 21–November 18, 2001, no. 29, as Calle de Nueva York.
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Colección Costantini, Artistas modernos Rioplatenses en Europa, 1911- 1924: La experiencia de la vanguardia, October 17, 2002–January 27, 2003, no. 59, ill., p. 39.
El Museo del Barrio, New York, Nexus New York: Latin/American Artist in the Modern Metropolis, October 17, 2009–February 28, 2010. (El Museo del Barrio 2010), ill., p. 105.
Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Torres-García, Traços de Nova York, May 1–June 13, 2010. (Caixa Cultural 2010), ill., p. 35 and 95. Traveled to: Museo Torres García, Montevideo, 2010–11.
Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Torres-García: Utopía y Tradición, May 23–July 31, 2011. (Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero 2011), ill., p. 13, fig. 4, , 45.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from MALBA-Fundación Costantini, April 22–August 5, 2012, ill., p. 74 and detail p. 8.
Published References
Barbagelata, Hugo D. "Joaquín Torres García: un pintor uruguayo olvidado." Suplemento. Imparcial (Montevideo), May 30, 1930, ill.
Torres-García, Joaquín. "Notas de Viaje: Impresiones de Nueva York." El Pueblo (Buenos Aires), September 1, 1935, ill.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 23, no. 10.
Fundación Torres García. CIUDAD - Torres García. Montevideo: 1991. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 8.
Medina, Alvaro. "Torres-García y la Escuela del Sur." Art Nexus, no. 3 (January 1992), ill. p. 52.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Colección Costantini en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires: Skira, 1996, ill. p. 47.
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. p. 204, no. 86.
Theran, Susan. Leonard's Price Index of Latin American Art at Auction. Newton, MA: Auction Index, Inc., 1999, ill. p. 468.
Bastos Kern, Maria Lucía. "O mito da cidade moderna e a arte: Torres-García e Xul Solar." Estudos Ibero-Americanos: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) vol. XXX, no. 2 (December 2004), ill. p. 75, as Paisaje de Nueva York.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 70, no. 3.1
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 22, fig. 3.
"La Nueva York de Torres García." El Observador (Uruguay), December 11, 2012, ill.
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 38-39.
Schwartz, Jorge. Fervor das vanguardas. Arte e literatura na América Latina. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2013, ill. no. 54.
Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 45, fig. 14.
Michelle Greet. Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 156, ill. p. 172.
Ferrari, Francesca. "Joaquín Torres-García’s Urban Fabrics: Fashioning the Body in New York, 1920-1922." Edited by Franziska Neff and Miriam Oesterreich. MIRADAS – Journal for the Arts and Culture of the Américas and the Iberian Peninsula (University Library Heidelberg) 6 (March 2022), Fig. 2, ill. p. 51, as Business Town.
Record last updated January 10, 2018. 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. "Business Town, 1920 (1920.03)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=378 (accessed on November 23, 2024).