Circle and Square

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Circle and Square [Cercle et Carré] was a group of abstract artists in Paris, founded 1929 by Joaquin Torres Garcia and Michel Seuphor. The group published a journal with the same name. From 1936 Joaquin Torres Garcia continued publication of the journal from Montevideo in Spanish with the title Círculo y Cuadrado.

April 1930 the group opened an exhibition in Galerie 23 at Rue La Boétie with works by Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Pierre Daura, Antoine Pevsner, Luigi Russolo, Georges Vantongerloo and others.