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Joan Miró

L'Équilibriste

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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983

L'Équilibriste


Bronze

Signed lower right

Edition 2/2 of 5 casts signed and justified

92 x 36 x 21 cm

Executed in 1969

Foundry Parellada, Barcelona


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Galerie Maeght, Paris
Waddington Galleries, London
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1982)
Thence by descent
London, Waddington Galleries, Joan Miró, 1981, no. 10, ill.
Miró: Sculpture in Bronze and Ceramic, 1967-1969, and Recent Etchings and Lithographs, New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 35, possibly another cast ill.
Miró: Sculptures, Paris, Galerie Maeght, 1970, cat. no. 37, possibly another cast ill. p. 30
Julien Clay, Miró sculpteur (in XX siècle, December 1971, no. 37), Paris, 1971, p. 43, possibly another cast ill. p. 33
Miró Sculptures, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971-1972, cat. no. 34, possibly another cast
Jacques Dupin, Francesc Català-Roca, Joan Prats, Miró escultor, Barcelona, 1972, possibly another cast ill. p. 149
Miró Bronzes, London, Hayward Gallery, 1972, cat. no. 18, p. 47, possibly another cast ill. p. 33
Joan Miró: Das Plastiche Werk, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1972, cat. no. 41, p. 49, possibly another cast ill. p. 85
Sculptures de Miró, céramiques de Miró et Llorens Artigas, Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, 1973, cat. no. 72, p. 136, possibly another cast
Pintura, escultura i sobreteixims de Miró a la Fundació, Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, 1975, cat. no. 260, possibly another cast ill. p. 163
Miró: Cent Sculptures, 1962-1978, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, 1978, cat. no. 43, p. 95, possibly another cast ill. p. 36
Joan Miró: Peintures, sculptures,  dessins, céramiques 1956-1979, Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, 1979, cat. no. 209, p. 184, possibly another cast ill. p. 102
Alain Jouffroy, Joan Toixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, p. 93, possibly another cast ill. no. 127
Miró escultor, Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones del Centro de Servicios de la Caja de Pensiones “la Caixa”, 1980, cat. no. 15, possibly another cast ill.
Hommage à Joan Miró, Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, 1984, cat. no. 145, p. 35, possibly another cast
Miró in Montreal, Montreal, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1986, cat. no. 46, p. 248, possibly another cast ill. p. 111
Miró escultor, Madrid, Centro Reina Sofia; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, 1986-1987, cat. no. 85, possibly another cast ill. p. 178
Miró: Der Bildhauer, Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 1987, cat. no. 85, possibly another cast ill. p. 192
Obra de Joan Miró: Dibuixos, pintura, escultura, ceràmica, tèxtils, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1988, no. 1535, possibly another cast ill. p. 420
Joan Miró: Skulpturen, Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 1990, cat. no. 45, n.p., possibly another cast ill.
Joan Miró: Skulpturer, Malmö, Konsthall, 1993, p. 120, possibly another cast ill. p. 121
Pere Gimferrer, Les arrels de Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 1203, p. 403, possibly another cast ill. p. 402
Poesia a l’espai: Miró i l’escultura, Palma, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, 1996, cat. no. 36, possibly another cast ill. p. 129
Experiment en ruimte: 4 Spaanse beeldhouwers: Picasso, González, Miró en Chillida, Otterlo, Kröller Müller Museum, 1997-1998, possibly another cast no. 42, pp. 142-143
Miró: Mein Atelier ist mein Garten, Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, 2000, cat. no. 58, p. 218, possibly another cast ill. p. 103
Joan Miró: Métamorphoses des formes, Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, 2001-2002, cat. no. 73, p. 225, possibly another cast ill. p. 26
Joan Miró: L'armonia del fantastico, GenoaMuseo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, 2001, no. 24, p. 168, possibly another cast ill. p. 94
Emilio Fernández Miró, Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Sculptures. 1928-1982. Paris, 2006, no. 149, p. 156, possibly another cast ill. p. 157
Jeffett, William, Joan Miró: La transformació d'objectes en éssers vius in Joan Miró: La metàfora de l'objecte, Barcelona, 2007, possibly another cast p. 14
Miró: La métaphore de l'objet, Carcassone, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse; Martigues, Musée Ziem, 2008, p. 10, possibly another cast ill. p. 37
Comprendre Miró, in Azart (Magazine, ed. 19 September), Paris, 2010, possibly another cast ill. p. 43
Miró i l'objecte, Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, 2015, pp. 28, 209, possibly another cast ill. p. 161
A.A.V.V., Miró and Twentieth-Century Sculpture (Miró Documents series), Barcelona, 2016, p. 146, possibly another cast
Martí Rom, Joan Miró i Montroig: El xiscle de l'oreneta (1930-1983), Tarragona, 2018, p. 299, possibly another cast

Miró started “building” his three-dimensional works in the 1930s and since then his language never ceased to change and evolve. In the 1960s, working with Parellada, he began an extraordinarily creative period, which was freer and in which he gave wider rein to the wilder and more daring side of his nature.


His assemblage sculptures have their roots in Surrealist collages but are approached in a way which is completely free of any dogma or preconceptions.


Entering the "(du)-champ of discovery", Miró started used objets trouvés, both organic and inorganic, as inspiration and material for his sculptures.


By moulding and manipulating the object, the artist transforms it without detracting from its essence. This process of transmutation, where forms are unceasingly charged with a new meaning is at the heart of his research.


In l’Équilibriste we recognize a puppet, a calabash and two wooden legs, their perfectly visible wood grain frozen forever. For Miró bronze is the perfect way to crystallize a vision, a memory, a movement.