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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1928
1928.40 (estate: 256)
Masque noir
1928
Oil on cardboard
20 x 14 1/2 in. (50.8 x 36.8 cm)
Signed upper left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated upper right: 28
Exhibitions
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection, October 13–November 24, 1974, no. 52*, ill., p. 76 (Spanish version p. 84), Listed as number 19 in Caracas exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, January 13–February 26, 1975; Galería INC, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, August 22–September 1975.
Galerie J. Bastien - Art, Brussels, Joaquín Torres-García Œuvres de la Collection Alejandra, Aurelio y Claudio Torres, November 25, 1998–January 10, 1999, ill.
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France, Joaquín Torres-García: un monde construit, May 24–September 8, 2002, ill., p. 153. Traveled to: Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, October 22, 2002–January 6, 2003 (Joaquín Torres-García: un mundo construido).
Fundção de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Spain, A Intuição e a Estrutura/La Intuición y la Estructura: De Torres-García a Vieira da Silva 1929-1949, December 4, 2008–January 25, 2009, ill., p. 93. Traveled to: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, February 24–April 19, 2009.
Published References
Jardí, Enric. Joaquín Torres-García. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1973, ill. p. 150, no. 198.
Braun, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres-García: The Alchemical Grid." In Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World, Ancient American Sources of Modern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993, ill. p. 256.
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Selection from the Exhibition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 75.
Maslach, Adolfo. Joaquín Torres-García: sol y luna del arcano. Caracas: UNESCO, 1998, ill. detail p. 345, no. 156.
Record last updated June 28, 2016. 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. "Masque noir, 1928 (1928.40)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=726 (accessed on April 21, 2025).