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Lot 310
  • 310

Joan Miró

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Tête
  • Inscribed Miró and numbered 2/2
  • Bronze with wooden base
  • Height (including base): 33 in.
  • 83.8 cm

Provenance

Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris
The Pace Gallery, New York

Exhibited

New York, The Pace Gallery, Miró Sculpture, 1984, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Fracesesc Vicens, Obra de Joan Miró: pintura, escultura i sobreteixims a la collecció de la Fundación (exhibition catalogue), Parc du Montjuïc, Barcelona, 1979, illustration of another cast p. 170
Alain Jouffroy & Joan Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, illustration of another cast p. 242
Obra de Joan Miró (exhibition catalogue), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1988, p. 439
Emilio Fernández Miró & Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró. Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 249, illustration of another cast p. 239

Condition

The work is in more or less original state and very good condition. The surface features a textured green and brown patina and the bronze is a little loose on its wooden base. There are some scratches and stains to the base that are likely original. There are also a couple cracks in the vicitiny of where the bottom tier and second tier of the sculpture connect. Otherwise fine.
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Catalogue Note

Of the other four casts of this sculpture, one is in the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, one in the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Mallorca, one in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and one in a private collection.