Lot 216
  • 216

Joan Miró

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Tête d'homme
  • Signed Miró / Art
  • Painted and glazed ceramic

  • Height: 31 1/2 in.
  • 80 cm

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Miró-Artigas, 1963, no. 8
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró-Artigas. Ceramics, 1963, illustrated in color on the front and back cover of the catalogue
London, The Tate Gallery & Zurich, Kunsthaus, Joan Miró, 1964, no. 222, illustrated in the catalogue
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Sculptures de Miró, céramiques de Miró et Llorens Artigas, 1973, no. 239
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró. Painted Sculpture and Ceramics, 1980, no. 16, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró-Artigas. Terres de grand feu, 1985, no. 29, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina, Miró ceramista, 1993, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Manuel Gasser, Miró-Artigas, Zurich, 1963, no. 268, illustrated in color p. 7
José Pierre & José Corredor-Matheos, Céramiques de Miró et Artigas, Paris, 1974, no. 315, illustrated p. 153
Pierre Courthion, Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, 1977, no. 117-18, illustrated p. 118
Francesc Miralles, Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, 1992, no. 887, illustrated p. 331
Joan Punyet Miró, Joan Gardy Artigas & Cristina Calero Fernández, Joan Miró. Josep Llorens Artigas. Ceramics. Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1981, Paris, 2007, no. 334, illustrated in color p. 279

Condition

A very mottled glaze is intact and in good condition. There is a two by one inch area of infilling with green putty at the bottom edge, directly below the nose-like formation. Two small areas of surface irregularity appear to have been infilled with plaster, near the nose on the back. Otherwise this work is in good condition.
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