Oiseau migrateur posé sur la tête d'une femme en pleine nuit

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Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Oiseau migrateur posé sur la tête d'une femme en pleine nuit

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Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Oiseau migrateur posé sur la tête d'une femme en pleine nuit
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Miró N.1 CLEMENTI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 17 in. (43.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1969; this bronze version cast during the artist's lifetime

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1975.

A. Jouffroy and J. Teixidor, Miró: Sculptures, Paris, 1974, p. 236, no. 164 (dated 1970; another cast illustrated, p. 118).
P. Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, New York, 1993, p. 405, no. 1241 (another cast illustrated; dated 1970).
E.F. Miró and P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró: Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, p. 145, no. 136 (another cast illustrated in color).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Miró Sculptures, October 1971-May 1972, no. 80 (illustrated; dated 1970).
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró: Sculpture, April 1976, no. 9 (illustrated; with incorrect cataloguing).
New York, The Pace Gallery, Miró: Sculpture, April-June 1984, p. 28 (illustrated; dated 1970).

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