Lot 159
  • 159

Joan Miró

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Untitled I
  • signed Miró (lower right); dated 13/I/67 on the reverse
  • brush and ink on paper
  • 46 by 62cm., 18 1/8 by 24 3/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Art Concorde, Paris (Edouard Weiss)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Literature

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Drawings 1960 - 1972, Paris, 2012, vol. III, no. 1952, illustrated p. 148

Condition

Executed on cream Japan paper, not laid down, attached to the mount intermittently along all four edges, and floating in the overmount. The upper and lower edges are deckled and there is some minor and pale scattered foxing in places. There are some minor creases in places, most of which are inherent to the paper, and the most prominent of which is a vertical crease to the left part of the upper edge. Overall this work is in very good condition.
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