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Joan Miró

Projet pour un monument

Auction Closed

November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Joan Miró

(1893 - 1983)


Projet pour un monument

inscribed Miró and numbered 4/6

painted bronze 

height: 20 ⅛ in. 51.1 cm.

Conceived in 1979 and cast in a numbered edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs; this example cast by Fonderia Artistica Bonvicini, Verona in 1985.

Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris

Jeffrey Loria & Co., New York

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Miró sculptures, 1985, no. 12, front and back covers, illustrations in color of another cast

Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1973, no. 226, p. 158, illustration of the plaster; p. 206

Jacques Dupin, Miró Firebird, Paris, 1998, p. 115, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture, 2002, no. 19c, p. 138, illustration in color of another cast

Emilio Fernández Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró: Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 271, p. 260, illustration in color of another cast

Ech. Cat., Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Miró: Sculptor, 2012-13, p. 102, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Ordovas, Chillida on Miró, 2014, no. 44-45, n.p. and p.76, illustration in color of another cast