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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Joan Miró

Peinture

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Joan Miró

(1893 - 1983)


Peinture

signed Miró (lower right); signed Joan Miró, titled and dated 1953 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

96 ½ by 49 ¼ in.

245.3 by 125.1 cm.

Executed in 1953.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist in December 1953)

Herbert C. Lust (acquired from the above in October 1960)

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired by 1980)

Acquavella Modern Art, Reno (acquired from the above in 1990)

Gallery K. AG, Japan (acquired by 1997)

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 2009)

Christie's, New York, 5 November 2014, lot 27 (consigned by the above)

Helly Nahmad Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró: Recent Paintings, 1953, no. 3, n.p., illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Miró: Selected Paintings, 1980, no. 36, p. 85, illustrated in color

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Miró in America, 1982, n.n.

Kunsthaus Zürich and Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, 1986-87, no. 142, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miró: A Retrospective, 1987, no. 123, p. 210; p. 211, illustrated in color

Yokohama Museum of Art, Joan Miró, Centennial Exhibition: The Pierre Matisse Collection, 1992, no. 71, p. 108, illustrated in color

Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miró Equilibri a l'espai, Obres procedents de la collecció Kazumasa Katsuta, 1997, no. 2, p. 26; p. 27, illustrated in color

Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró (on extended loan)

Jacques Dupin, Miró, New York, 1962, no. 808, p. 561, illustrated

Jacques Dupin, Miró Firebird, Paris, 1998, p. 81, illustrated in color

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, vol. III, Paris, 2001, no. 929, p. 203, illustrated in color

Jacques Dupin, Miró, Paris, 2012, p. 294