Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Galleria Narciso, Turin
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Joan Miró, 1985, no. 81, illustrated in the catalogue
Cherasco, Palazzo Salmatoris, Chagall, Miró, Magritte: La Poesia del Sogno, 2005, n.n.

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné, Drawings 1938-59, Paris, 2010, vol. II, no. 1038, illustrated in colour p. 127

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the backing board with tape in two places along the upper edge. There are artist's pin holes to all four corners and to the centre of each edge. The sheet is slightly undulating and there is tape lining the edges of the verso. The sheet is time stained with some mount staining along all four edges. There are a few spots of foxing along the upper edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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'For me a form is never something abstract, it is always a sign of something. It is always a man, a bird, or something else. For me painting is never form for form’s sake' (quoted in M. Rowell, Joan Miró, Selected Writings and Interviews, Boston, 1986, p. 207)