Rating and value of paintings by Joaquin Torres Garcia

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Rating and value of the artist

Throughout his career, Joaquin Torres Garcia has produced a great deal. His international renown opened the doors of many Parisian and Spanish museums. Today, Torres Garcia remains highly valued and is a sure bet on the art market. A work signed by the artist can fetch millions of euros at auction, as demonstrated by his oil on canvas Construction en blanc,dated 1931, which fetched 2,497,150 euros at Sotheby's in 2019. 

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The artist's works and style

Torres Garcia is an artist of the École de Paris, who produced cubist and surrealist works. He is mostly famous for his paintings, but also produced drawings and prints.

Joaquin Torres Garcia, a major figure of the École de Paris

Joaquin Torres Garcia is a Spanish and Uruguayan artist of the École de Paris, born in 1874 in Montevideo.

His father being from Mataro in Spain, he spent his childhood there. In 1891, he moved to Barcelona with his family, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After meeting Picasso in a cabaret, he moved to Paris, where he formed the Cercle et Carré group with Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Its aim was to produce new theories and reflect on the new implications and issues of the changes taking place in contemporary art at the beginning of the 20th century. He disagreed, however, with the group's direction towards abstraction, and decided to leave.

In 1903, he was commissioned to create stained glass windows for Palma de Mallorca Cathedral, which drew heavily on the rose window motif.

In the 1920s, following the influence of Picasso, his work turned towards Cubism. In search of a new framework and new influences, he moved to New York.

In the '30s, he detached himself from Western theories and chose to draw his inspiration from Egyptian, pre-Columbian and African art.

In 1943, he opened a workshop for constructivist techniques, where he trained numerous students.

Torres Garcia died in 1949, while preparing two future exhibitions.

Joaquin Torres Garcia's imprint on his time

Torres Garcia is an artist who is relatively unknown to the general public, who produced works that are nonetheless known to enthusiasts and collectors and are quoted at auction. Numerous exhibitions have been devoted to him, and some of his works are part of permanent collections.  

His signature

Not all of Joaquin Torres Garcia's works are signed. He signs with his initials " JTG ".

Although there are variations, here's a first example of his signature:

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