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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
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
Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris
Rafael Lorente and Cristina Mourelle, Montevideo
Private collection, Montevideo
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Exhibitions
1962 Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes
Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, Torres-García: Colección Privada de Montevideo, December 1962, no. 44, ill. Dated 1930.1971–72 Museo Torres García
Museo Torres García, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición Homenaje a Esther de Cáceres, December 1971–March 1972, no. 7.1990–91 Galería Guillermo de Osma
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.1991 Galería Guillermo de Osma
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Barradas - Torres-García, November 14–December 18, 1991, no. 18, ill., p. 53.1994 Quinta Galería
Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia, Exposición Joaquín Torres-García y La Escuela del Sur, September 28–November 28, 1994, ill., p. 13.1995a Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.
Cecilia de Torres, Ltd, New York, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, Summer 1995, no. 3.2002 Fundación Cultural MAPFRE VIDA
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 1991
Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 95.Bonet 1991a
Bonet, Juan Manuel. "Torres-García y Barradas, pioneros de la vanguardia española." ABC (Madrid), December 29, 1991, ill p. 45.García-Bermejo 2002
García-Bermejo, Jose Maria Faerna. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2002, ill. no. 31.Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 72, no. 3.2Rowell 2009
Rowell, Margit. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Poligrafa, 2009, ill. p. 19.Caixa Cultural 2010
Torres-García, Traços de Nova York. Rio de Janeiro, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 Caixa Cultural), ill. p. 93.Sanchez Vidal 2012
Sanchez Vidal, Agustin. Joaquín Torres-García. Madrid: Fundacio MAPFRE Instituto de Cultura, 2012, ill. p. 41.Lorente Mourelle 2015
Arte y arquitectura en Uruguay 1930-1970. Montevideo: Gráfica Mosca, 2015, ill. p. 16, as New York.Museum of Modern Art 2015
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 May 12, 2024).