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Property of an Important Private Collector

Joan Miró

Femme échevelée

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property of an Important Private Collector

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983


Femme échevelée

inscribed Miró, numbered no. 2 and stamped with foundry mark Clementi Fondeur

bronze

height: 26 ½ in. 67.4 cm. 

Conceived in 1969; this example cast in 1970-73 in an edition of 4 plus 1 nominative cast. 

Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London.

Private Collection (acquired from the above in July 1981)

Christie’s, New York, 13 May 2016, lot 1220 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Roland Penrose, Creación en el espacio de Joan Miró, New York, 1966, pp. III and XXXVII, illustration of another cast

Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró, Sculptures, Paris, 1973, no. 132, pp. 98-99, illustration of another cast

Laura Coyle and William Jeffett, The Shape of Color, Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture, 2002, p. 25, illustration of another cast

Emilio Fernández Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 147, pp. 20 and 155, illustrations of other casts