Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Tête de fumeur
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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Joan Miró
(1893 - 1983)
Tête de fumeur
signed Miró and dated 1925. (lower left); signed Joan Miró, titled and dated again (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ⅝ by 31 ⅞ in. 65 by 80.8 cm.
Executed in 1925.
Roger Dutilleul, Paris
Jean Masurel, Paris (acquired circa 1956 by descent the above)
Christian Masurel, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner
Margit Rowell, Joan Miró. Peinture—poésie, Paris, 1976, p. 47, illustrated; p. 203
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, vol. I, Paris, 1999, no. 134, p. 116, illustrated
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miró: Magnetic Fields, 1972, no. 10, p. 89, illustrated; pp. 90 and 147
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, 1974-75, no. 13
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