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Property from a Private New York Collection

Joan Miró

Composition

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private New York Collection

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983


Composition

signed Miró (lower right); signed Miró, dated 29.IX.79 and dedicated a Finki Araquistain, recordando nuestra vieja amistad (on the verso)

brush and ink and gouache on paper

35 ¼ by 24 ¾ in.

89.5 by 62.8 cm.

Executed on 29 September 1979.

Finki Araquistain, Switzerland (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Private Collection

Sotheby's, London, 5 April 1989, lot 407 (consigned by the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 360

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, 1978-1981, vol. VI, Paris, 2018, no. 4899, p. 214, illustrated in color