ID 792604
Lot 496 | JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
Femme
signed 'Miró', numbered 2⁄2' (on the reverse of the base) and stamped with the foundry mark 'R. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE'
painted bronze (lost wax casting)
height (excluding base): 25 3⁄4 in. (65.5 cm.)
Conceived and cast in bronze in 1971 by Fonderie Valsuani et Fils, Bagneux, Paris, in a numbered edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof
Provenance
Galerie Maeght, Paris, and thence by descent to the present owner in the 1980s.
Literature
A. Jouffroy & J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, no. 199, p. 239.
E. Fernández Miró & P. Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 253, p. 243 (illustrated).
L. Coyle, W. Jeffrett & J. Punyet Miró, The Shape of Colour, Joan Miro´'s Painted Sculpture, Washington D.C., 2002, no. 17, pp. 136 & 167 (illustrated p.136).
Exhibited
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Miro´, June - November 1997, no. 107, p. 215 (illustrated p. 196).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Address of auction |
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