Construction in White and Black

Joaquín Torres-García · 1938

This is Construction in White and Black — a painting by the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García, nineteen thirty-eight. Glue tempera — pigment bound in animal glue, which dries fast and dead matte, closer to distemper on a wall than to oil.

Medium Glue tempera on cardboard mounted on wood · Dimensions 31 3/4 x 40 1/8" (80.7 x 102 cm) · Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of David Rockefeller

Hanging beside it in Gallery 512: Untitled, Curves and Straight Series

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, 2x-2, Nasielk III, Untitled. Transformable Structure, Untitled, Neoconcrete Relief

More by Joaquín Torres-García here: Composition, Construction with Curved Forms