Lot 259
  • 259

Joan Miró

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Untitled 37
  • signed Miró  (lower right)
  • ink on paper
  • 36.4 by 62cm., 14 1/4 by 24 1/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Galerie d'Art du Colisée, Paris
Kenneth Aberg Konsthandel AB, Sweden
Sale: Christie's, London, 2nd December 1991, lot 143
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, Paris, 2012, vol. III, no. 1904, illustrated p. 131 (with incorrect dimensions)

Condition

Executed on Japan paper, not laid down, attached intermittently to the backboard along the upper and lower edges, and floating in the overmount. All four edges are deckled. The sheet is slightly time stained, with some foxing marks in places. Otherwise, this work is in overall very good condition.
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