ID 949569
Lot 488 | JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Femmes dans la nuit
signed 'Miró' (lower right); signed again, dated, titled and inscribed 'Joan Miró Femmes dans la nuit X Barcelone, 24-12-1942' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolor, pastel and pencil on paper
25 1/4 x 18 5/8 in. (64 x 47 cm.)
Executed in Barcelona on 24 December 1942
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Hilda Sutton (acquired from the above, January 1958).
Private collection (by descent from the above, until 1993).
Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2009, lot 141.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, vol. II, p. 129, no. 1042 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Bern, Joan Miró, April-May 1949, p. 10, no. 48.
London, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Joan Miró: A Retrospective, October 1999-January 2000, p. 30, no. 20 (illustrated in color).
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
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