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A CONSTELLATION OF FORMS: PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGIOUS PRIVATE COLLECTION
JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Femmes devant le soleil
Details
JOAN MIRO (1893-1983)
Femmes devant le soleil
signed 'Miró' (lower center); signed again, dated, titled and inscribed 'Joan Miró Femmes devant le soleil x Barcelone, 11-11-1942' (on the reverse)
gouache, pastel and black pencil on paper
25 ¼ x 18 7⁄8 in. (64.1 x 48 cm.)
Executed in Barcelona on 11 November 1942
Femmes devant le soleil
signed 'Miró' (lower center); signed again, dated, titled and inscribed 'Joan Miró Femmes devant le soleil x Barcelone, 11-11-1942' (on the reverse)
gouache, pastel and black pencil on paper
25 ¼ x 18 7⁄8 in. (64.1 x 48 cm.)
Executed in Barcelona on 11 November 1942
Provenance
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
Dr. Wilhelm Loeffler, Zurich (acquired from the above, circa 1949-1950, then by descent); sale, Christie’s, London, 21 June 1993, lot 39.
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Rosenfeld Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, September 2014.
Dr. Wilhelm Loeffler, Zurich (acquired from the above, circa 1949-1950, then by descent); sale, Christie’s, London, 21 June 1993, lot 39.
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Rosenfeld Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, September 2014.
Literature
E. Hüttinger, Miró, Bern, 1957, no. 34.
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, vol. II, p. 117, no. 1018 (illustrated in color).
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, vol. II, p. 117, no. 1018 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, Margit Linck, Oscar Dalvit, April-May 1949, p. 9, no. 43.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, March-April 1956, no. 56 (illustrated).
New York, Alan Auslander Gallery, European Masters, September-November 1975.
New York, Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, Modern Masters, fall 1994.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, March-April 1956, no. 56 (illustrated).
New York, Alan Auslander Gallery, European Masters, September-November 1975.
New York, Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, Modern Masters, fall 1994.
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