JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
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ID 1334592
Lot 433 | JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Estimate value
25000USD $ 25 000 – 35 000
Tête couronnée
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark ‘Miró 2/2 FUNDICIO VICTORIA PARELLADA BARCELONA’ (on the back)
bronze and iron
Height: 22 ¼ in. (56.7 cm.)
Length: 17 in. (43 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1970
Provenance
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Private collection, France.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, June 1997.
Literature
A. Jouffroy and J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1973, pp. 118 and 202, no. 165 (another cast illustrated, p. 119).
J. Dupin, Miró as Sculptor, Barcelona, 1976, no. 125 (another cast illustrated).
C. Escudero i Anglès and V. Izquierdo Brichs, Obra de Joan Miró: Dibuixos, pintura, escultura, ceràmica, tèxtils, Barcelona, 1988, p. 430, no. 1575 (another cast illustrated).
P. Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, New York, 1993, p. 406, no. 1243 (another cast illustrated).
E.F. Miró and P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures: Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, p. 201, no. 201 (another cast illustrated in color).
E.F. Miró and P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné, 1928-1982, www.successiomiro.com/catalogue (accessed September 2024), no. 201 (another cast illustrated in color).
Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Abstract art |
Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Abstract art |
Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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