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Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949), Abstract Art in Five Tones and Complementaries, 1943, Uruguayan. Oil on board mounted on panel. 52.1 x 67.6 cm. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (http://www.albrightknox.org); gift of Mr and Mrs Armand J. Castellani; © 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY/ADAGP, Paris, France.

Despite a 43-year absence from his native country, Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949) is known as Uruguay's "Father of Modern Art." Born and reared near Montevideo, he was the son of a Catalan carpenter father and an Uruguayan mother. Because of financial reverses, the family returned to the father's native city of Mataro in Catalonia when the boy was 17. Shortly thereafter he began his first art training, in Barcelona. Before he was 30 he was collaborating with Spain's greatest architect, Antoni Gaudí, on Gaudí's life-long work, Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, and on the stained glass at . . . [Full Text of this Article]