Joaquin Torres-Garcia
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Uruguay ( Montevideo 1874 - Montevideo 1949 ) -  Artworks
Christie's / May 22, 2012
€26,487.06 - €34,054.79
€63,047.60
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Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Composición
Original 1944
Auction:
Christie's -
May 29, 2013- New York
Lot number:
10
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Lot Description
Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan 1874-1949) Composición signed with initials and dated 'JTG 44' (lower right) oil on cardboard 10¼ x 13 1/8 in. (26 x 33.3 cm.) Painted in Montevideo in 1944.
Provenance
Estate of the artist. Rose Fried Gallery, New York. Emilio Ellena collection, Santiago. By descent to the present owners.
Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Literature
C. Schaefer, Torres-García, Buenos Aires, Poseidon, 1945, plate II (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949: 15th Memorial Exhibition, New York, Rose Fried Gallery, 1964 (illustrated). E. Jardí, Torres García, Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafa, 1973, p. 249, no. 364 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Voces de ultramar: Arte en América Latina 1910-1960, Madrid, Turner Libros, S.A., 1992, p. 122, no. 44 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Joaquín Torres-García, Santiago, Corporación Cultural de las Condes, 1994 (illustrated in color). R. Bindis, "El constructivismo Torres-García: El lenguaje de las cosas y del mundo" in La Tercera, Santiago, 17 April 1994. A.M. Maslach, Joaquín Torres-García: Sol y luna del arcano, Caracas, UNESCO, 1998, p. 579, no. 378 (illustrated). J.M. Sanguinetti, "Joaquín Torres-García: El lenguaje de las cosas y del mundo" in Clasica: Arte & Cultura, Buenos Aires, No. 134, October 1999, p. 73 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Rose Fried Gallery, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949: 15th Memorial Exhibition, 6 January- 13 February 1964. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Voces de ultramar: Arte en América Latina y Canarias, 1910-1960, 7 September- 8 November 1992, no. 44. This exhibition also travelled to Madrid, Casa de América, 10 December 1992- 31 January 1993. Santiago, Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Joaquín Torres-García, 7- 24 April 1994.
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We are grateful to Cecilia de Torres for her assistance cataloguing this work; registered under archive number P1944.32.
Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Puerto, Popa Del Barco España
Original 1925
Auction:
Christie's -
Nov 20, 2012- New York
Lot number:
15
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan 1874-1949) Puerto, popa del barco España oil on cardboard laid on canvas 18 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (46 x 23.2 cm.) Painted in 1925.
Francisco Matto collection. Manuel Mayoral Alabedra, Barcelona.
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Cecilia de Torres and dated New York, May 2003 and is registered under archive number P1925-3.
Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Río Negro (arte Constructivo)
Original 1943
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
22
URUGUAYAN
JOAQUÍN TORRES GARCÍA
Río Negro (Arte Constructivo)
, 1943
oil on board
19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. (50.2 x 69.9 cm)
Initialed and dated "JTG 43" lower left, and titled "Rio Negro" center right. Also titled and dated "Arte Constructivo 1943" on the reverse.
ESTIMATE $350,000 - 550,000
PROVENANCE
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
EXHIBITED
Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo,
Exposición Antológica
Torres García
, April-May, 1973
LITERATURE
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.
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Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Untitled
Original 1930
Auction:
Christie's -
May 22, 2012- New York
Lot number:
13
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan 1874-1949) Untitled signed 'JTG' (lower left) also inscribed 'TG 465' by an unknown hand (on the verso) watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper 8½ x 5¼ in. (21.6 x 13.3 cm.) Executed circa 1930.
Alejandra, Aurelio and Claudio Torres collection. Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva. Acquired from the above by the present owner (2002).
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
Exhibition catalogue, Selected works 1899 to 1949: Torres-García, from the Collection Alejandra, Aurelio, Claudio Torres, Geneva, Jan Krugier Gallery, no. 6 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Torres-García, Barcelona, Museu Picasso, 2003-2004, p. 256, no. 240 (illustrated in color).
Geneva, Jan Krugier Gallery, Selected works 1899 to 1949: Torres-García, from the Collection Alejandra, Aurelio, Claudio Torres, 1992, no. 6. Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Torres-García, 25 November 2003- 11 April 2004, no. 240.
This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Cecilia de Torres and dated 19 February 2002. The work is also sold with a certificate of authenticity from Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim and Cie, signed by François Ditesheim and dated 10 January 2002.
Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Composition
Original 1933
Auction:
Christie's -
Feb 15, 2012- London
Lot number:
300
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949) Composition signed and dated 'J. Torres-GARCIA.33' (lower left) ink and watercolour on paper 18 7/8 x 14¼in. (48 x 36.2cm.) Executed in 1933
Rose Fried Gallery, New York. Galerie Tarica, Paris. Hubertus Wald, Hamburg, by whom acquired from the above.
PROPERTY FROM THE HUBERTUS WALD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, 1970. This exhibition later travelled to New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, 1974. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Joaquín Torres-García, 1975 (illustrated, unpaged). Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, The Wald Collection, 2002.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue raisonné edited by Cecilia Torres.