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Lot Essay
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Mr. Jacques Dupin, Paris.
Les amants belongs to a series of embracing lovers which Miro executed in pencil drawings and oils around 1925. Sidra Stich writes "Anatomical distortion, in which certain bodyparts are omitted and others swell in proportion, became another central feature of Miro's art of this period. A 1925 series of "Lover" paintings exemplifies this tendency. The figures are depicted as curvaceous, amoeboid beings with enlarged breast or phallic projections. Either they stand on one giant foot or their bodies blend together at the base. Facial features are lacking except for an occasional cyclopean eye, a prominent beak, or muzzled profile. In some of the paintings and in associated drawings, bodies are described only by flowing linear contours and thus seem even less like human beings." (Sidra Stich in "Joan Miro: The Development of a Sign Language", St.Louis, Missouri, 1980, p.20).
This drawing was once owned by Mme. M. Cuttoli, Paris who also owned the celebrated oil La Sieste from 1925 (Dupin 119).
Les amants belongs to a series of embracing lovers which Miro executed in pencil drawings and oils around 1925. Sidra Stich writes "Anatomical distortion, in which certain bodyparts are omitted and others swell in proportion, became another central feature of Miro's art of this period. A 1925 series of "Lover" paintings exemplifies this tendency. The figures are depicted as curvaceous, amoeboid beings with enlarged breast or phallic projections. Either they stand on one giant foot or their bodies blend together at the base. Facial features are lacking except for an occasional cyclopean eye, a prominent beak, or muzzled profile. In some of the paintings and in associated drawings, bodies are described only by flowing linear contours and thus seem even less like human beings." (Sidra Stich in "Joan Miro: The Development of a Sign Language", St.Louis, Missouri, 1980, p.20).
This drawing was once owned by Mme. M. Cuttoli, Paris who also owned the celebrated oil La Sieste from 1925 (Dupin 119).