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Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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1928.63
Figure primitif
Alternate title: Sin título
1928
Oil on canvas
39 7/8 x 32 3/16 in. (101.3 x 81.6 cm)
Signed upper left: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated upper right: 28
Provenance
Private collection, Europe
Sotheby's New York, New York, May 30, 1997, Latin American Art, lot 240, ill. p. 195.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Exhibitions
2001 Fogg Art Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, March 3–November 4, 2001, ill., p. 73, fig. 22.2005 Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, Diálogos/Diálogos, Arte Latinoamericano desde la Colección Cisneros, May 5–June 29, 2005, no. 9, ill., p. 70. Traveled to: Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, July 22–September 26, 2004; Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 25–February 28, 2004.2007 The Blanton Museum of Art
The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collections, February 20–April 22, 2007. Traveled to: Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York, September 12–December 8, 2007.2011 Ibere Camargo Foundation
Ibere Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Joaquín Torres García: geometría, criação, proporção, September 10–November 20, 2011, ill., p. 123. Traveled to: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, December 3, 2011–February 26, 2012.
Record last updated April 28, 2015. 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. "Figure primitif, 1928 (1928.63)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=748 (accessed on April 20, 2025).