TORRES-GARCIA, Joaquin

Born in Montevideo of a Catalan father and a Uruguayan mother, Torres-Garcia studied and worked in Spain before coming in 1920 to New York, where he shared a studio with the painter Stuart Davis at the Whitney Studio Club, making wooden toys that presaged his later Constructivist painting. Returning to Europe in 1922, he lived in Paris, where he befriended Theo Van Doesburg , Piet Mondrian , and Michel Seuphor , among others. Then in his forties,...