Lot 24 : Joaquin Torres Garcia (Uruguayan 1874-1949)
Auction Location: United States of America - 2005
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Artist or Maker:
Joaquin Torres Garcia (Uruguayan 1874-1949)
Title:
Los tres mundos del hombre
Description:
Los tres mundos del hombre
incised wood
23 x 10 in. (58.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
Provenance:
Estate of Torres Garcia, no. 1048.
Horacio Torres.
Jean Krugier Gallery, Geneva and New York.
Private collection, Miami.
Notes:
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
We are grateful to Mrs. Cecilia de Torres for confirming the authenticity of this work; to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist under archive number P 1932.09.
Torres García considered wood to be the omnipresent material of three-dimensional creations. In Los tres mundos del hombre, like in the other constructivo paintings and sculptures, the composition derives from Scandinavian Architectural Design. The artist was inspired by Alvar Alto's idea of organic construction and the hierarchical distribution of space. Torres García redefined the distribution of space to the bi-dimensional realm, carefully placing a group of highly developed dictionary of personal icons and symbols in order to emphasize the lecture of the work. Represented and synthesized into simple shapes, the artist drew his iconography from pre-Columbian imagery, early European aesthetic symbols, Man and his Universe, and everyday objects. Los tres mundos del hombre clearly integrates the world of symbolism used by the artist to address existential concerns related to mankind.
Cecilia de Torres
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