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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
Galerie Pierre, Paris
Roberto Sapriza, Montevideo
Private collection, Paris
CDS Gallery, New York
Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 18, 1995, Latin American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints, lot 158, ill.
Private collection, New York
Eduardo Costantini, Buenos Aires
Colección MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
1921 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Later Tendencies in Art, April 16–May 15, 1921, no. 24, as Business Town, Exhibited in Gallery I.1921 Whitney Studio Club
Whitney Studio Club, New York, Stuart Davis, J. Torres-García, Stanilaw Szukalski, April 25–May 15, 1921.1927 Galerie Carmine
Galerie Carmine, Paris, J. Torres-García, June 16–30, 1927, no. 2, as Synthèse de New York.1932 Galerie Pierre
Galerie Pierre, Paris, Oeuvres Récentes de Torrès García: Peintures - Sculptures, March 4–18, 1932.1962 Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, December 1962, no. 85, ill.1987 Philippe Briet Gallery
Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, Torres-García, New York 1920-1922, September 23–October 13, 1987. (Philippe Briet 1987).1991 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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, 1991.1995 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Barradas/Torres García, August–September 1995, no. 11, ill., p. 77.1998a Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, A Coleçao Costantini, May 1998, ill., p. 75.2001 MALBA
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.2002–03 MALBA
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. 39.2009–10 El Museo del Barrio
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. 105.2010 Caixa Cultural
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, 2010–11.2011 Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
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, , 45.2012 MFAH
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 1930
Barbagelata, Hugo D. "Joaquín Torres García: un pintor uruguayo olvidado." Suplemento. Imparcial (Montevideo), May 30, 1930, ill.Teriade 1932
Teriade, E. "Torres-García." L'Intransigeant (Paris), March 8, 1932, ill.Torres-García 1935k
Torres-García, Joaquín. "Notas de Viaje: Impresiones de Nueva York." El Pueblo (Buenos Aires), September 1, 1935, ill.Comentario 1968
"Joaquín Torres-García." Comentario (Montevideo) año XIV, no. 2 (1968), ill. p. 11.Gradowczyk 1985
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 23, no. 10.Fundación Torres García 1991
Fundación Torres García. CIUDAD - Torres García. Montevideo: 1991. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 8.Medina 1992
Medina, Alvaro. "Torres-García y la Escuela del Sur." Art Nexus, no. 3 (January 1992), ill. p. 52.Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 1996b
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La Colección Costantini en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires: Skira, 1996, ill. p. 47.Maslach 1998
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. p. 204, no. 86.Theran 1999
Theran, Susan. Leonard's Price Index of Latin American Art at Auction. Newton, MA: Auction Index, Inc., 1999, ill. p. 468.Bastos Kern 2004
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 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 70, no. 3.1Fundación Caixa Girona 2008
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 22, fig. 3.El Observador 2012
"La Nueva York de Torres García." El Observador (Uruguay), December 11, 2012, ill.Sanchez Vidal 2012
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 38-39.Schwartz 2013
Schwartz, Jorge. Fervor das vanguardas. Arte e literatura na América Latina. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2013, ill. no. 54.Museum of Modern Art 2015
Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 45, fig. 14.Greet 2018
Michelle Greet. Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 156, ill. p. 172.Ferrari 2022b
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 April 25, 2024).