JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA | CONSTRUCTIVE COMPOSITION BAN (I) & STRUCTURE (II) : A PAIR
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Property from the Estate of Bernard Chappard
JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA
1874-1949
CONSTRUCTIVE COMPOSITION BAN (I) & STRUCTURE (II) : A PAIR
(I) Signed with the initials J.T.G (lower left) and dated 32 (lower right)
(I) Pen and ink and pencil on paper
(II) Pencil and colored pencil on paper
(I) 3⅝ by 3⅛ in. (9.2 by 7.9 cm)
(II) 5⅛ by 7⅝ in. (13 by 19.4 cm)
Framed: (I) 11¾ by 11 in. (29.8 by 28 cm)
Framed: (II) 12¾ by 14¾ in. (32.4 by 37.5 cm)
(I) Executed in 1932.
(II) Executed in 1942.
These works have been authenticated by Cecilia de Torres and are currently in the process of being included in the Online Catalogue Raisonné: www.torresgarcia.com.
(I.) Royal S. Marks, New York (and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, May 31, 2001, lot 87)
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above
(II.) Royal S. Marks, New York (and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, November 19, 2003, lot 142)
Acquired at the above sale
(I.) London, Hayward Gallery; Barcelona, Fundación Miró; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; New York, The American Federation of the Arts; Miami, Center for the Arts; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Torres-García: Grid-Pattern-Sign, Paris-Montevideo, 1929-1949, 1985-86, no. 51, illustrated in color in the catalogue