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JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)

Lot 13
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 13 | JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
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$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Peinture (Amour)
signed and dated 'Miró 1925.' (lower left) and titled 'Amour' (lower right); signed and dated again 'Joan Miró 1925.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 36 ¼ in. (73.5 x 92 cm.)
Painted in 1925




Provenance

Galerie Surrealiste, Paris.
Ladislas Szecsi, New York (by 1939).
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Harold X. Weinstein, Chicago.
Perls Gallery, New York (by 1962).
Jane Wade, New York.
Byron Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 20 November 1968.



Literature

R.G. Harris, "Also on the Calendar" in The New York Times, vol. LXXXVIII, no. 29,597, 5 February 1939, p. 10.
J. Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, New York, 1962, p. 510, no. 116 (illustrated).
M. Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, p. 19, no. 24 (illustrated in color).
S.M.L. Aronson, "Classical Cool: Mica and Ahmet Ertegun's town house reflects a discerning couple's original taste" in House & Garden, March 1987, p. 218.
P. Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, New York, 1993, pp. 344-345, no. 259 (illustrated, p. 344).
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, 1908-1930, Paris, 1999, vol. I, pp. 114-115, no. 130 (illustrated, p. 114).



Exhibited

New York, Mercury Gallery, Visions of Other Worlds, January-February 1939, no. 6.
New York, Byron Gallery, The Surrealists, November-December 1969, p. 110, no. 49 (illustrated, p. 111).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Surrealism in Art, February-March 1975, pp. 48 and 63, no. 103 (illustrated, p. 48; titled Le baiser au l'amour).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Surrealism, February-March 1983, no. 66 (illustrated in color).
London, Tate Modern, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, September 2001-January 2002, no. 529 (illustrated in color).
Vienna, BA-CA Kunstforum, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, March-July 2007, pp. 94 and 216 (illustrated in color, p. 94).
Artist:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art, Surrealism
Place of origin:Europe, Spain
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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