Private Collection, Barcelona
Galería Jordi Pascual, Barcelona
Artelandia, Madrid
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Drawings 1973-1976, Paris, 2013, vol. IV, no. 2841, illustrated in colour p. 227

Executed on cream laid paper and not laid down. Attached to a backing board intermittently to the verso and floating in the mount. The sheet is undulating and there is a repaired loss to the upper left corner. There are areas of paint shrinkage to the black ink and some associated small losses. There is a 3mm tear to the lower part of the right edge and a further small repaired tear to the upper part of the right edge. There are some additional small nicks to the extreme edges and some studio marks to the upper right corner. Overall this work is in good condition.
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‘[…] the colors of poetry gradually gave way to an intense, flourishing black, which at times sweeps over the canvas or suggests forms and figures reminiscent of those of the pre-war years.’ (Gisela Fischer & Jean-Louis Prat, Miró, From Earth To Sky, Munich, London & New York, 2014, p. 18)