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August 23, 2005

Joaquin Torres García Alladyn Toys

On my previous post, I mentioned the toys designed by Torres-García. Joaquín Torres-García is probably the most famous Uruguayan painter and one of the most relevant 20th century Latin American artists. As the son of an art historian, I was well aware that Torres García had designed toys but I never read much about them. Actually, my friend and Powerful Robot partner Sofia Battegazzore had first-hand experience with them. Her father was a student of Torres García and Sofía, as a little girl, was allowed to play with the original toys when visiting the artist's widow. Quite expensive toys considering that his paintings can easily fetch half a million dollars in auction!
rAnyway, talking about toys, the fact is that you can buy reproductions at the Torres García Museum in Montevideo. But apart from those, the available information online is quite scarce and that is why I decided to upload the pictures that I took at the Museu del Joguet de Catalunya in Figueras, Spain. The pictures' quality is far from stellar but I hope it can help scholars looking for information about them.
rAs I previously said, if you want to buy reproductions of these toys, you can find them at the Museum in Montevideo or at the Caixa Forum in Barcelona (at least that's what the Museum's pages claim. I was at the Caixa Forum a few months ago and I do not remember seeing them). Here are links to the reproductions' catalogue (in Spanish and in Pdf format). Link 1, Link 2, Link 3.
rAnd here are the links to the pictures that I took at the Museu del Joguet. The pictures show all the toys that were on exhibit as of August, 2005. All pics include the displayed information (in Catalan). Here's a shot of the Aladdin Toys catalogue. Bull dog, crow and truck. Picture of Woman and Man. A 1918 invitation to a toy exhibit. The cover of an exhibit catalogue on Torres García toys at the Fundació Caixa Catalunya april-june, 1998. For those interested in the book, the IVAM bookstore says that it is out of print but just in case, here's the ISBN 84-482-1512-5. A printed advertisement for Aladin toys in French. Two birds. Last, but not least, animals and trees from the jungle made in 1917-18.

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