LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel

Measurements:

29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (height) by 20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'J. Torres-Garcia (lower left) and dated '33' (lower right center)

Exhibited:

London, Hayward Gallery, Torres-Garcia: Grid-Pattern-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1924-1944, organized by the American Federation of the Arts, November 1985 - April 1987. This exhibition later traveled to Barcelona, Fundación Joan Miró; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Torres-García, June- August 1991. Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, September- November 1991, no. 84. New York, Americas Society, Abstract Art from the Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires Montevideo 1933-1953, September-January 2001, no. 12.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, 1991, p. 128, no. 84 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Torres-García: Grid- Pattern- Sign, Paris- Monetevideo 1924-1944, Hayward Gallery, London, p. 68, no. 73 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Abstract Art from the Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires Montevideo 1933-1953, 2001, p. 102, no. 12. L. Driben, El Cono Sur en México, Artes Plásticas, Letras Libres, Mexico, p. 94 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist No. 596. Horacio Torres, Montevideo. Rose Fried Gallery, New York. The Estate of Royal S. Marks, London. Sotheby's, New York, Twenty Works by Joaquin Torres-García from the Estate of Royal S. Marks, 20 November 1989, lot 3 (illustrated in color).