Under the direction of Cecilia De Torres
Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
1928.64
Café Riche
1928
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres GARCIA; dated lower right: 28
Provenance
Exhibitions
Stockholm, 1937.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain, Grandes Maestros de las Vanguardias Históricas en la Colección Juan Abelló. De Picasso a Bacon, August 6–31, 1992.
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, Torres-García, November 25, 2003–April 11, 2004, no. 107, ill., p. 123.
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, El Cubismo y sus entornos en las colecciones de Telefónica, January 20–March 27, 2005, ill., p. 252. Traveled to: Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, December 20, 2005–May 7, 2006; Museo de Pontevedra, Spain, July 4–September 3, 2006; Museo de Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain, September 21, 2006–January 15, 2007; Fundación Telefónica Chile, Santiago de Chile, April 1–June 29, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, July 22–September 14, 2008; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Neuquén, November 7–January 11, 2008; Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru, March 31–June 28, 2009; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, September 26–November 11, 2009; Musée D'Ixelles, Brussels, February 4–April 25, 2010; Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, July 8–September 26, 2010; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, November 23, 2010–January 9, 2011.
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. 16, fig. 13.
Published References
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 154, no. 5.48.
Fundación Caixa Girona. Torres-García Darrere la màscara constructiva. Girona, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 48, fig. 17.
Record last updated November 29, 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. "Café Riche, 1928 (1928.64)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=749 (accessed on April 20, 2025).