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Classification: Painting

Medium: Oil

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1928

1928.92

Café

Alternate title: Pintura

1928

Oil on cardboard

20 7/8 x 29 in. (52 x 73.5 cm)

Signed and dated upper right: J. Torres-GARCIA 28

Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo (1580)

Provenance

Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo

Exhibitions

1951 Comisión Municipal de Cultura

Comisión Municipal de Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, Exposición J. Torres-García, August 1951, no. 11.

1953–54 Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, II Bienal, December 1953–February 1954, no. 74, Dimensions listed as 55 x 53.5

Published References

Pereda 1991

Pereda, Raquel. Joaquín Torres-García. Uruguay: Fundación Banco de Boston, 1991, ill. p. 129.

Peluffo Linari 1999a

Peluffo Linari, Gabriel. Pintura Uruguaya: Breve Selección del Período 1840-1980. Buenos Aires: Capital AFAP, 1999, ill. p. 95.

Carbajal 2011

Miguel Carbajal. Arte uruguayo de los maestros a nuestros días: Joaquín Torres-García. Montevideo: El País, 2011, ill. p. 41.

Fló 2011

Fló, Juan. "Torres García." In Geometrales 2009/2010: obras de la colección del MNAV, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. Montevideo, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 25.

Record last updated May 4, 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, 1928 (1928.92)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=777 (accessed on April 19, 2025).