Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Catalogue Entry
1921.10
New York
c.1921
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 25 1/8 in. (81 x 64 cm)
Signed lower right: J. Torres-GARCIA; undated
Provenance
Rafael Lorente and Cristina Mourelle, Montevideo
Private collection, Montevideo
Exhibitions
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, December 1962, no. 44, ill. Dated 1930.
Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición Homenaje a Esther de Cáceres, December 1971–March 1972, no. 7.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, De Nueva York a Madrid: Pintura y Escultura Siglos XVII, XIX, XX, 1990–91, ill., p. 27 and detail on cover, as New York.
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Barradas - Torres-García, November 14–December 18, 1991, no. 18, ill., p. 53.
Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia, Exposición Joaquín Torres-García y La Escuela del Sur, September 28–November 28, 1994, ill., p. 13.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, Summer 1995, no. 3.
Fundación Cultural MAPFRE VIDA, Madrid, La generación de 14: Entre el Novecentismo y la Vanguardia, April 26–June 16, 2002, ill., p. 152.
Published References
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 95.
Bonet, Juan Manuel. "Torres-García y Barradas, pioneros de la vanguardia española." ABC (Madrid), December 29, 1991, ill p. 45.
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 31.
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 72, no. 3.2
Torres-García, Traços de Nova York. Rio de Janeiro, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 Caixa Cultural), ill. p. 93.
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 41.
Arte y arquitectura en Uruguay 1930-1970. Montevideo: Gráfica Mosca, 2015, ill. p. 16, as New York.
Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 23, fig. 11.
Supplemental Images
Related drawing from the artist's New York album (92 pages), 1921, 8 1/2 x 6 in. (21.6 x 15.2 cm)
Label from an original box of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company's chewing gum. Torres-García included a detail of this logo on the left side of this painting as it appeared in a NYC billboard at the time.
Record last updated December 18, 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. "New York, c.1921 (1921.10)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=398 (accessed on April 28, 2024).