Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Gentleman
Femme
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Joan Miró
1893 - 1983
Femme
inscribed Miró and stamped with the foundry mark V GIMENO=FUNDIT BARNA and numbered EX. 0 (on the underside)
bronze
height: 31.5 cm. 12 ⅜ in.
Conceived in 1949; this example cast by the Gimeno Foundry in 1949. This work is number 0 from an edition of 9 known examples.
The May Family Collection, Beverly Hills
Christie's, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 496 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, New York, 2 May 2012, lot 377 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, London, 27 February 2019, lot 113
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró, Paris, 1956, p. 199
Jacques Dupin, Miró, Paris, 1961, p. 446, another cast illustrated (dated 1950)
Mario Bucci, Joan Miró, Florence, 1968, no. 26, p. 71, another cast illustrated in colour
Umbro Apollonio, Miró, New York, 1969, no. 55, another cast illustrated in colour
Alain Jouffrey and J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1973, no. 32, p. 193, another cast illustrated
Gaëtan Picon, Joan Miró, Carnets catalans, Geneva, 1976, p. 41
Alejandro Cirici Pellicer, Miró mirall, Barcelona, 1977, p. 91
Fundació Joan Miró, ed., Obra de Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1988, no. 1395, p. 378
Rosa Maria Malet, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1992, p. 109
Pere Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 542, p. 285
Emilio Fernández Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 35, p. 53, another cast illustrated in colour