JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

Lot 116
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ID 1164003
Lot 116 | JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
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£ 2 700 000 – 3 500 000
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

L'échelle de l'évasion (The Escape Ladder)

signed 'Miró' (centre left)

oil on burlap

28 7⁄8 x 21 3⁄8 in. (73.5 x 54.3 cm.)

Painted in December 1939





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

J.S. Stein, Chicago, by 1948 and until at least 1962.

Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired circa 1975, and thence by descent.

Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above in 2013.

Private collection, London, by whom acquired from the above via the intermediation of Crane Kalman Gallery in 2018.



Literature

C. Greenberg, Joan Miró, New York, 1948, p. 132 (illustrated pl. LX, p. 97).

J. Prévert & G. Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró, Paris, 1956, p. 147 (illustrated).

J. Dupin, Miró: Life and Work, London, 1962, no. 536, pp. 304 & 541 (illustrated p. 305).

J. Dupin, Miró, Paris, 1993, no. 265, pp. 242 & 243 (illustrated p. 243).

W. Erben, Joan Miró: The Man and His Work, Cologne, 1998, p. 104 (illustrated).

J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné, Paintings, vol. II, 1931-1941, Paris, 2000, no. 626, p. 229 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Chicago, The Arts Club, Joan Miró: Works from Chicago Collections, February - March 1961, no. 28.
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