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JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA (1874-1949)

Lot 884
14.05.2022 11:30UTC -05:00
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ID 753988
Lot 884 | JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA (1874-1949)
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$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA (1874-1949)Estructura con formas trabadassigned 'J. Torres-GARCIA' (lower left) and dated '33' (lower right)tempera on board29 1⁄2 x 20 3⁄4 in. (75 x 52.8 cm.)Painted in 1933 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. 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). 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).
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