Aladdin transformable toys

Painted wooden blocks, size varies.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

When Torres Garcia worked as a drawing teacher at the Mont d’Or school in Barcelona, ​​he concluded that the game is essential as an educational tool. In 1918, he began working together with a manufacturer of wooden toys. Later in the USA, the artist developed the concept of transformable sculptures, which he called The Aladdin Toys. In the mid-1920s, a warehouse with a whole supply of toys in New York burned out. The artist, although he continued to engage in the commercial distribution of his toys, abandoned his idea of their large-scale production.