Tag: exile in Uruguay
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Portrait of Joaquín Torres García, Montevideo, 1949
Joaquín Torres García (1874-1949) was one of the most influential Uruguayan avant-garde artists of the 20th century. Born in Montevideo, he studied Fine Art in Barcelona and worked, among other commissions, on the window murals of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. After travelling with his family to Paris, New York and Italy, combining his painting activities and…