Untitled

Details

Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Miró 1939.' (lower right)
brush and pen and India ink on paper collage elements, on paper
25 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (64.1 x 49.6 cm.)
Executed in 1939

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1995, lot 54.
Studio Simonis, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Drawings, vol. II, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, no. 883, p. 54 (illustrated).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

"The drawings that I sometimes do before doing certain paintings are an intimate document, so to speak - they help me arrive at a complete formal divestiture and thus attain the true expression of the spirit. Once the paintings are finished, I destroy these drawings or else hold on to them to use a a springboard for the other works. The drawings you have are not all preparations for paintings, but definite drawing-drawings". (Joan Miró in a letter to Pierre Matisse, 7 March 1937 in 'Joan Miró Selected Writings and Interviews', (ed.) M. Rowell, Boston, 1986, p. 148).

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