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Lot 380
  • 380

Joan Miró

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Figure
  • Inscribed Miró, numbered 3/6 and with the foundry mark Parallada

  • Bronze on a wooden base
  • Height: 40 1/2 in.
  • 103 cm

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Collection,  New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Palm Beach

Literature

Miró en las colecciones del Estado (exhibition catalogue), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1987, no. 89, illustration of another cast p. 104
Miró: Gemälde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen und Graphik (exhibition catalogue), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1988, no. 89, illustration of another cast p. 120
Le rêve interrompu de Miró (exhibition catalogue), Centre Culturel Espagnol, Paris, 1988, no. 41, illustration of another cast p. 133
Escultores de Miró (exhibition catalogue), Llonja, Palma de Mallorca, 1990, no. 23, illustration of another cast p. 141
Palma: territori Miró (exhibition catalogue), Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, 1996, no. 68, illustration of another cast p. 183
Emilio Fernández Miró & Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 374, color illustration of another cast p. 347
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Joan Miró The Last Bronze Sculptures 1981 -1983, 2006, illustrated p. 42-43 

Catalogue Note

Many of Miró's late sculptures are assemblages of found objects which he cast in bronze. According to Duncan Macmillan, "From these transformed objects, Miró produces personnages, women, birds, and combinations of all three. These new creations are invested with the mysterious animation of the artist's touch and yet retain an unbreakable link with the ordinary. They become a metaphor for the infinite variety and absolute peculiarity of human individuality" ('Miró's Public Art', Miró in America (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982, p. 111).  The present work illustrates Miró’s capacity to break with convention and create a truly unique composition.  The touch of the artist’s hand lingers on the rough, disproportionate and asymmetrical figure, instilling the work with seldom visible vestiges of the creative process.   As a result, Figure is more than merely a final product of artistic vision; it is imbued with a character belonging to the realm somewhere between conception and execution.  Like much of the artist’s work, the composition departs from representation and reality in an attempt to stimulate the imagination.