Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan 1874-1949)

Mesa de café con hombre leyendo

Details

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan 1874-1949)
Mesa de café con hombre leyendo
signed 'JTG' (lower left) dated '40' (lower right)
oil on cardboard
16½ x 20 3/8 in. (42 x 51.5 cm.)
Painted in 1940.

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1949.
Joaquín Torres-García Family Collection.
Ifigenia Torres Piña.
Alejandra, Aurelio and Claudio Torres.
Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva.
Acquired from the above.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Torres-García, Barcelona, Museo Picasso, 2003, p. 290, no. 284 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Torres-García: Retrospective, 3 April-27 June 1998.
Barcelona, Museo Picasso, Torres-García, 25 November 2003-11 April 2004, no. 284.

Lot Essay

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Joaquín Torres-García Archive of Alejandra, Aurelio and Claudio Torres, signed by Alejandra Torres and dated 13 January 2015.

We are grateful to Cecilia de Torres for her assistance cataloguing this work.

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