JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
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ID 1508107
Lot 228 | JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Estimate value
350000USD $ 350 000 – 550 000
Etoile-filante et têtes
signed 'Miró' (center right); signed again, dated and titled 'Joan Miró Etoile filante et têtes 14/8/35' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolor and brush and India ink on paper
14 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (37.2 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted on 14 August 1935
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Stephen C. Clark, New York (by 1939).
Private collection, Santa Fe; sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 168.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
J. Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, New York, 1962, p. 284.
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, 1901-1937, Paris, 2008, vol. I, p. 245, no. 506 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; New Haven, The Yale University Art Gallery; Durham, Duke University; Seattle, The Henry Gallery of the University of Washington and Flint, The Institute of Art, Small Paintings by Modern Artists, 1939-1941, no. 1.
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, January-April 1995, p. 93 (illustrated in color, p. 73; with incorrect orientation).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Calder and Miró, June-September 1998, p. 77 (illustrated in color, p. 24; with incorrect orientation).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Master Artworks from Private Collections, August-November 2005, p. 51 (illustrated in color, p. 12; with incorrect orientation).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Miró, Buffet, Basquiat, March-May 2010.
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Moderns: Selections from the Saltzman Family Collection, July-November 2015.
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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