L13004

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Lot 353
  • 353

Joan Miró

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Untitled
  • signed Miró, dated XII/72 (lower right) and dedicated a Miguel Samaranch Amat, que obrí nous horitzons a l'Escola Catalana de Tapisseria, amb afecte (towards upper left)
  • gouache on paper
  • 99 by 64.5cm., 39 by 25 3/8 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Spain (a gift from the artist in 1972)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró. Catalogue raisonné. Drawings 1960-1972, Paris, 2012, vol. III, no. 2426, illustrated in colour p. 352

Condition

Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down. All four edges are slightly unevenly cut. There is some overall discolouration to the sheet. There is some medium staining to the outline of the composition, associated with the artist's process and his use of zinc white pigment. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

132L13004_697HH_comp
Miró painting. Photograph courtesy of Claude Simon.