New York City: Bird's Eye View Yale University Art Gallery

1920

Medium: Gouache and watercolor on cardboard
Dimensions: sheet: 13 5/16 × 19 1/8 in. (33.8 × 48.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
Accession Number: 1941.722
Culture: Uruguayan
Period: 20th century
Classification: Watercolors
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Provenance

KSD purchase from the artist, New York, probably 1921

Bibliography

Margit Rowell and Cecilia De Torres, Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood, ed. Mari Carmen Ramíez, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), 203, ill.

Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 660, 661, no. 686, fig. 686

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), architecture, cityscapes (representations), watercolors

perspective

Dated in LL: "1920"

Signed in LR: "J. Torres-Garcia"

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