Live auction - Lot 497
[Torres García]
Cuadernos del Taller Torres-García. 30 dibujos constructivos. 12 reproduciones en negro y 18 en color.
Montevideo, Taller Torres García, (1952)
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
4to (a few faint fox.).
Sewn with a brown ribbon, upper cover orn. (split without lack of paper to the lower part of upper cover).
First edition and only issue of this rare publication presenting 30 drawings by members of the Taller Torres García, a workshop school founded by Torres García in 1943. "It became a testing ground for ideas regarding the role of constructivism and abstraction in the production of an American art, as well as a laboratory for experimenting with new and traditional materials and techniques" (Cecilia de Torres). Introduction by Guido Castillano, drawings on differently coloured papers by Horacio Torres, José Gurvich, Edwin Studer, Jorge Visca, Manuel Pailós, Hugo Giovanetti, Carlos A. Llanos, Alceu Ribeiro, Emín Fernández, Justo M. Aguiar, Antonio Pezzino, Gastón Oldade, Josè Collell etc. Edition limited to 400 copies (n. 41).