Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Private collection, Buenos Aires
Galería Der Brücke, Buenos Aires
Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November 20, 1990, lot 35
Private collection, Caracas
Sale: Christie's, New York, Important Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 15, 1996, lot 54
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Exposición Antológica Torres García, April-May, 1973
Exposición Antológica Torres García, exh. cat., Madrid, 1973, p. 112 (illustrated)
E. Jardí, Torres García, Barcelona, 1974, p. 243 (illustrated)
This lot will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Cecilia de Torres, listed as P1943.77.
Uruguayan
• 1874
- 1949
Joaquín Torres-García was born in Montevideo and moved to Barcelona with his family, studying at the Escuela Oficial de Bellas Artes. The Catalan Noucentismo movement provided the foundation for his artistic development. His work was also influenced by Neo-Plasticism, Cubism and Vibrationism, which fused Cubism and Futurism with urban imagery.
Torres-García returned to Uruguay after a 43-year absence. While at home, he continued to develop his iconic style of Constructive Universalism, a chief contribution to modernism that affected many younger generations of Uruguayan artists. This style aspired to establish a universal structural unity through synthetic abstraction. In order to accomplish this, Torres-García synthesized rather than analyzed the quotidian elements and urban scenes from reality. While remaining in the world of figuration, he integrated abstraction's structural grids within the composition, also incorporating pre-Columbian aesthetics.
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