Joan Miró

Personnages, oiseau, gouttes d'eau

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, New York

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983

Personnages, oiseau, gouttes d'eau

signed Miró (lower right); signed Joan Miró, titled Personnages, gouttes d'eau, oiseau, dated Montroig 9/9/1942 and numbered 7 (on the verso)

pastel and pen and ink on paper

4 ¾ by 40 ½ in.

12 by 103 cm.

Executed in Mont-roig on 9 September 1942.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Carl Djerassi, United States

Saidenberg Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, Volume II: 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, no. 968, p. 93, illustrated (with incomplete medium)