JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
19.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1574252
Lot 142 | JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Estimate value
550000USD $ 550 000 – 750 000
Femmes devant le soleil
signed 'Miró' (lower center); signed again, dated, titled and inscribed 'Joan Miró Femmes devant le soleil x Barcelone, 11-11-1942' (on the reverse)
gouache, pastel and black pencil on paper
25 ¼ x 18 7/8 in. (64.1 x 48 cm.)
Executed in Barcelona on 11 November 1942
Provenance
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
Dr. Wilhelm Loeffler, Zurich (acquired from the above, circa 1949-1950, then by descent); sale, Christie’s, London, 21 June 1993, lot 39.
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Rosenfeld Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, September 2014.
Literature
E. Hüttinger, Miró, Bern, 1957, no. 34.
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, vol. II, p. 117, no. 1018 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, Margit Linck, Oscar Dalvit, April-May 1949, p. 9, no. 43.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, March-April 1956, no. 56 (illustrated).
New York, Alan Auslander Gallery, European Masters, September-November 1975.
New York, Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, Modern Masters, fall 1994.
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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