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Construction in White and Black

Construction in White and Black

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TypeArtwork
AuthorJoaquín Torres-García
MovementAbstract Expressionism
WhereThe Museum of Modern Art
Year1938
Note createdFeb 12, 2026
Last updatedFeb 13, 2026

Construction in White and Black Glue tempera on cardboard mounted on wood, 31 3/4 × 40 1/8” (80.7 × 102 cm). A grid-based composition incorporating universal symbols — suns, clocks, fish, keys — reflecting Torres-García’s unique synthesis of Constructivism and pre-Columbian Latin American iconography, which he called Constructive Universalism.


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