Lot 334
  • 334

Joan Miró

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Painting II
  • signed Miró, dated 12/VII/65 and numbered II on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 15.9 by 24.5cm., 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Private Collection, Spain (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Spain (by descent from the above; sale: Christie’s, London, 21st June 2006, lot 397)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Joan Miró, 1968, no. 73, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona, Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Joan Miró, 1968, no. 79
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miró, 1975, no. 40, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Palma de Mallorca, Sa Llotja, Joan Miró, 1978, no. 82, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

James Johnson Sweeney, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1970, illustrated in colour p. 132
Michael Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, no. 89, illustrated in colour n.p.
Pere A. Serra, Miró i Mallorca, Barcelona, 1984, no. 205, illustrated in colour p. 155
Pere Gimferrer, Les arrels de Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 888, illustrated p. 384
Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Paintings 1959-1968, Paris, 2002, vol. IV, no. 1197, illustrated p. 157

Condition

The canvas is not lined and examination under UV light reveals no signs of retouching. There are some minor lines of pigment loss to the extreme edges of the canvas, in particular to each corner, and a further spot of pigment loss towards the right part of the lower edge. There is a diagonal surface abrasion approximately 2cm long within the yellow pigment towards the centre of the upper edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

'For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must radiate like the flints that shepherds in the Pyrenees use for lighting their pipes’ (The artist quoted in Margit Rowell, Selected Writings and Interviews, London, 1987, p. 251)