Deux personnages et la lune

Details

Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Deux personnages et la lune
signed 'Miró' (lower right)
watercolour and brush and ink on paper
8¼ x 12¾ in. (21 x 32.3 cm.)
Executed in 1954

Provenance

E.C. Ricart (a Catalan painter and friend of the artist), a gift from the artist.
Possibly Loeb Gallery, New York, by 1962.
Jean Arp or François Arp (brother of Jean), by whom possibly acquired from the above.
Ruth Tillard-Arp, by descent from the above; her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Calmels Cohen, Paris, 12 June 2003, lot 77.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

J. Dupin, Miró, Barcelona, New York, Paris, 1993, fig. 323 (illustrated p. 301).

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Lot Essay

The history of the present watercolour is tinted with the sign of frienship as it has belonged to two important friends of Miró; both were artists and shared at one point some artistic affinities with him. First, Deux personnages was given to Enric Cristòfol Ricart (1893-1960), a Catalan painter, who was Miró first and close friend at Sant Lluc Artistic Circle in Barcelona. In 1917, Miró painted his portrait, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Dupin, no. 53). Later on Deux personnages was acquired by Jean Arp (1887-1966), a life-long friend of the artist whom Miró met in Paris. Jacques Dupin suggested that Arp possibly acquired it through the Loeb Gallery.

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