LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on board

Size Notes:

29 1?2 x 20 3?4 in. (75 x 52.8 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts and New York, The American Federation of Arts, Torres-García, Grid-Pattern-Sign: Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944, November 1985-April 1987, p. 68, no. 73 (illustrated). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM) Centre Julio González, Torres-García, June-November 1991, p. 128, no. 84 (illustrated). New York, Americas Society and Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Abstract Art from the Río de la Plata: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1933-1953, September 2001-April 2002, p. 102, no. 12 (illustrated). New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Madrid, Fundación Telefónica and Málaga, Museo Picasso, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 2015-January 2017 (illustrated, p. 145; illustrated again in color, on the back cover).

Literature:

A. Badrinas, "J. Torres-Garcia," Art, vol. I, no. 3, December 1933 (illustrated). "Beyond the Fringe," Building Design, 17 January 1986, p. 21 (illustrated). A. Maslach, Joaquín Torres-García: Sol y luna del arcano, Caracas, 1998, p. 457, no. 312 (illustrated). L. Driben, "El Cono Sur en México," Letras Libres, March 2002, p. 94 (illustrated). C. de Torres, et al., Joaquín Torres-García: Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.torresgarcia.com), no. 1933.03 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Horacio Torres, Montevideo. Rose Fried Gallery, New York. Royal S. Marks, New York (by 1985); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1989, lot 3. J. Steiner, New York (by 1991). Private collection, Europe; sale, Christie's, New York, 19 November 2007, lot 20. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.