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Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Signes et figurations

Price realised GBP 457,250
Estimate
GBP 600,000 – GBP 900,000
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Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Signes et figurations

Price realised GBP 457,250
Closed: 6 Feb 2013
Price realised GBP 457,250
Closed: 6 Feb 2013
Details
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Signes et figurations
signed 'Miró' (lower right)
oil on tarred and sanded paper
39 1/8 x 30½ in. (99.7 x 77.5 cm.)
Painted in 1936
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (no. ST-3150).
Acquavella Galleries, New York (no. 2127).
Claude Kechichian, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Literature
J. Dupin, Miró, Paris, 1961, no. 432, p. 518.
J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings, vol. II, 1931-1941, Paris, 2000, no. 520, p. 152 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions 100 x 122 cm, 39 3/8 x 48 in.)
Exhibited
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Impactes. Joan Miró 1929-1941, November 1988 - January 1989, no. 45, p. 77 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, February - April 1989.
Yokohama, Museum of Art, Joan Miró. Centennial Exhibition: The Pierre Matisse Collection, January-March 1992, no. 23, p. 72 (illustrated).
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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