Lot 108
  • 108

Joan Miró

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Pour meubler les textes
  • Inscribed Pour meubler les textes and numbered 2/2 (lower center)
  • Brush and ink and gouache on paper
  • 22 3/8 by 30 1/4 in.
  • 56.8 by 76.9 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe
Waterhouse & Dodd, London
Acquired from the above by A. Alfred Taubman on April 30, 2009 

Exhibited

New York, The Armory Show, 2009
Bridgehampton, ArtHamptons, 2009

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged to the mount at several places around the perimeter on verso. Edges are very slightly irregular and the right and bottom edges have been unevenly trimmed. Some studio staining and some light discoloration to the sheet due to age including some discoloration to a few scattered natural fibers of the sheet. Some spots of staining to verso of sheet. Otherwise, fine. This work is in good condition.
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