Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from ADOM (Association pour la défense de l'oeuvre de Joan Miró).
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La torture de l'absence
Details
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
La torture de l'absence
signed and dated 'Miró.5.32.' (lower left) and inscribed 'La torture de l'absence.' (lower left)
brush and India ink on paper
9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (24.3 x 32.5 cm.)
Executed in May 1932
La torture de l'absence
signed and dated 'Miró.5.32.' (lower left) and inscribed 'La torture de l'absence.' (lower left)
brush and India ink on paper
9 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (24.3 x 32.5 cm.)
Executed in May 1932
Provenance
Elisabet Engellau, Paris.
Acquired by the present owner in the 1950s-1960s.
Acquired by the present owner in the 1950s-1960s.
Literature
J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Drawings, vol. I, 1901-1937, Paris, 2008, no. 360 (with an erroneous image, p. 176).
Exhibited
Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Miró, September - October 1972.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Joan Miró, Creator of New Worlds, May - August 1998, no. 94 (illustrated p. 80; catalogued with erroneous dimensions).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Joan Miró, Creator of New Worlds, May - August 1998, no. 94 (illustrated p. 80; catalogued with erroneous dimensions).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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