Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Joan Miró
Sans titre (Soirée snob chez la princesse)
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Joan Miró
1893 - 1983
Sans titre (Soirée snob chez la princesse)
signed Miró and dedicated à mon ami clayeux, avec toute mon amitié et sympathie mars 1949 (on the reverse)
gouache and pastel on paper
31.5 by 51.4 cm. 12 ⅜ by 20 ¼ in.
Executed circa 1946.
Louis Clayeux, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist in March 1949)
Carlo Bilotti, Palm Beach
Thomas Amman Fine Art, Zurich
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York
Donald B. Marron, New York (acquired from the above in June 2002)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008
Yvon Taillandier, Miró. Je travaille comme un jardinier, Paris, 1964, pp. 18-19, illustrated in colour (dated 1944)
Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró. Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, vol. II, Paris, 2010, no. 1081, p. 145, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)
Sète, France, Musée Paul Valery, Miró. Vers l’infiniment libre. Vers l’infiniment grand, 2014, no. 22, pp. 126-127, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Miró. La couleur de mes rêves, 2018-19, no. 79, illustrated in colour (with incorrect medium)