Joan Miró

Galeria Maeght, Barcelona
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Miró en las colecciones del Estado (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 112
Miró: Gemälde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen und Graphik (exhibition catalogue), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1988, illustration of another cast p. 132
Le Rêve interrompu de Mirò (exhibition Catalogue), Centre Culturel Espagnol, Paris, illustration of another cast p. 132
Fernández Miró & Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró. Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 367, colour illustration of another cast p. 342

Many of Miró's late sculptures are assemblages of found objects which he cast in bronze. According to Duncan Macmillan, 'From these transformed objects, Miró produces personnages, women, birds, and combinations of all three. These new creations are invested with the mysterious animation of the artist's touch and yet retain an unbreakable link with the ordinary. They become a metaphor for the infinite variety and absolute peculiarity of human individuality' (D. Macmillan, 'Miró's Public Art,' Miró in America (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982, p. 111). 

The touch of the artist's hand lingers on this rough, disproportionate and asymmetrical figure, instilling the work with seldom-visible vestiges of the creative process. As a result, Danseuse is more than merely a final product of artistic vision; it is imbued with a character belonging to the realm somewhere between conception and execution. Like much of the artist's work, the composition departs from representation and reality in an attempt to stimulate the imagination.

This sculpture was cast in a bronze edition, numbered 0-6, during the artist's lifetime. Examples from the numbered edition are at the collection of the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Pierre & Maria Gaetana Matisse Fondation in New York. Miró's Estate also authorized two nominative casts in bronze, one in 1987 for the Reina Sofia in Madrid and the other in 1989 for the Fons d'Art de la Generalitat de Catalunya.