JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA | Constructivo con formal de animal (Energía atómica)

Estate of the artist
Ifigenia Torres, Montevideo
Private collection, Madrid
Private collection, Spain

Houston, Meredith Long & Company & New York, Meredith Long Contemporary, Works by Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, 1977, no. 597
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Joaquín Torres-García u su visión constructiva, 1980, no. 20
Monterrey (Mexico), Museo de Monterrey, Exposición del gran pintor uruguayo Joaquín Torres-García, 1981, no. 20
New York, Arnold Herstand & Company, Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949, Late Paintings, 1983-84, illustrated
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Madrid, Fundación Telefónica & Malaga, Museo Picasso, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, 2015-17, illustrated p. 189 (titled Energía atómica)

Leonor Cortina, 'Joaquín Torres-García, apóstol de la pintura hispanoamericana', in El Sol de México, March 22, 1980, illustrated p. 4
Christopher Lyon, 'Artful Volumes', in Bookforum 22, issue 5 (February/March 2016), illustrated p. 27

The board is stable. Examination under UV light reveals a few minor dots of retouching along the upper edge and in the grey pigment to the upper part of the composition, a further smaller dot of retouching to the lower right quadrant in the white pigment (located approx. 15 cm from lower edge and 10 cm from the right edge). There are superficial scratches to the impasto. There is a restored paint loss (located approximately 7 cm from upper edge and 24 cm from the left edge,) to the red vertical shape to the upper left quadrant and a further minor dots of paint loss to the lower part of the right edge in the black rectangular shape. There are a few scattered stable hairline lines of craquelure, possibly consistent with the artistic process. This work is in overall good condition.
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“Evidently, there are many painters and very few creators. Torres-Garcia is one of these; a creator and a man.”
Theo Van Doesburg, 1929

This work is included in the Joaquín Torres-García Online Catalogue Raisonné (www.torresgarcia.com) as no. 1946.10.