JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

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Lot 50 | JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

Le Regard fixe vers l’horizon déchiré par les cris d’aigle

(The Gaze Fixed on an Horizon Split Open by the Eagle’s Cries)

signed ‘Miró’ (lower left); signed again, inscribed and dated ‘Miró 1953 LE REGARD FIXE VERS L’HORIZON DECHIRÉ PAR LES CRIS DE L’AIGLE‘ (on the reverse)

oil and India ink on cardboard

15 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46 cm.)

Executed in 1953





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

Perls Galleries, New York, by 1961.

Mary & Leigh B. Block, Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago, gifted by the above on 11 April 1988 and deaccessioned on 14 March 1994 in exchange for another work from the Block estate.

Private collection, New York, by whom acquired from the above.



Literature

J. Dupin, Miró, Paris, 1961, no. 843, p. 548 (illustrated).

J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, vol. III, 1942-1955, Paris, 2001, no. 959, p. 226 (illustrated).



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