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Property of a European Lady

Joan Miró

Composition

Session begins in

March 5, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Bid

70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Joan Miró

1893 – 1983

 

Composition

signed Miró (centre right)

oil, watercolour, black chalk and pencil on paper

62.5 by 48 cm. 24¼ by 19 in.

framed: 81.4 by 67.1 cm. 32 by 26⅜ in.

Executed in April 1937.

(Probably) Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Douglas Cooper, London

Waddington Galleries, London

Acquired from the above in the 1980s by the present owner

Barcelona, Fondació Joan Miró, Impactes, Joan Miró 1929-1941, 1988-89, no. 65, p. 97, illustrated

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Joan Miró: Paintings & Drawings 1929-41, 1989, illustrated in colour

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, 1994, no. 526, p. 566, fig. 461, illustrated in colour

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, vol. I, Barcelona, 2008, no. 749, pp. 354-355, illustrated