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Property of a Gentleman

Joan Miró

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