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Property from a Private Collection, Buenos Aires

Joaquín Torres-García

Synthèse à Paris

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500,000 - 700,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection, Buenos Aires

Joaquín Torres-García

1874 - 1949


Synthèse à Paris

signed J. Torres-Garcia (upper right); dated 27 (upper center)

oil on canvas

46 ¼ by 29 in.

118 by 73.7 cm.

Executed in 1927.

Private Collection, New York

Jorge Páez Vilaró, Montevideo

Private Collection, Buenos Aires (acquired from the above in August 1959)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Carmine, J. Torres-García, 1927, no. 10

Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Joaquín Torres-García: Obras de museos y colecciones particulares de Montevideo y Buenos Aires, 1964, no. 59

Buenos Aires, Galería Palatina, Pinturas, dibujos, construcciones y juguetes, 1998, no. 13, p. 5, illustrated

L'Art Vivant, année 3, 1 July 1927, Paris, no. 61, p. 549, illustrated

Mario H. Gradowczyk, Torres-García: Utopía y transgresión, Montevideo, 2007, no. 5.9, p. 132, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Cultural, Torres-García, Traços de Nova York, 2010, p. 94, illustrated in color

Michelle Greet, Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars, New Haven, 2018, p. 173, fig. 157, illustrated

Cecilia de Torres, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner and Victoria L. Fedrigotti, eds., Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné, no. 1927.68, illustrated in color (online) (accessed 1 April 2026)