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JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)

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$ 5 000 000
Auction dateClassic
12.05.2022 20:00UTC -04:00
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ID 753533
Lot 38 | JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)Peinture (L'Etoile)signed and dated 'Miró 1927.' (lower center); signed and dated again 'Joan Miró 1927' (on the reverse)oil on burlap25 1⁄2 x 32 in. (65 x 81.1 cm.)Painted in 1927 Provenance Galerie Pierre, Paris.René Gaffé, Brussels.Roland Penrose, London (acquired from the above, July 1937).Zwemmer Gallery, London (by 1937).Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 29 April 1964, lot 112.Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above).Audrey and Billy Wilder, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 28 November 1964); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1989, lot 39. Waddington Galleries, London.Private collection, Chicago.Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris.Private collection, France; sale, Christie's, London, 7 February 2005, lot 76. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. Literature P. Viladas, "A Life in Pictures" in House and Garden, April 1989, p. 156 (illustrated in color in situ in the Wilder apartment, Los Angeles).J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings, 1908-1930, Paris, 1999, vol. I, p. 220, no. 301 (illustrated in color). Exhibited London, Zwemmer Gallery, Selected early paintings and drawings by Joan Miró, May-June 1937, no. 12.Santa Barbara, University of California Art Gallery, A Selections of Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder, October-November 1966, p. 11, no. 34 (illustrated, p. 22).Paris, Galerie Malingue, Maîtres Impressionnistes et Modernes, October-December 1990, no. 20 (illustrated).Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Joan Miró: La naissance du monde, March-June 2004, p. 390, no. 117 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 217). Sale Room Notice Please note the amended support, which can be accessed online: oil on burlap
Artist:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Surrealism
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