Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Femme échevelée

Details
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Femme échevelée
signed and numbered ‘Miró No2’ (on the left leg); stamped with foundry mark ‘CLEMENTI FONDEUR’ (on the right leg)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 26 ½ in. (67.4 cm.)
Length: 27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1969; this bronze version cast in 1970-1973
Provenance
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, July 1981.
Literature
R. Penrose, Creación en el espacio de Joan Miró, New York, 1966, pp. III and XXXVII (another version illustrated).
A. Jouffroy and J. Teixidor, Miró, Sculptures, Paris, 1973, p. 99, no. 132 (another cast illustrated, p. 98).
L. Coyle and W. Jeffett, The Shape of Color, Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., p. 25 (another version illustrated).
E.F. Miró and P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, p. 155, no. 147 (another cast and painted version illustrated in color; another version illustrated, p. 20).

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