Musique du crépuscule III

Details

Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Musique du crépuscule III
signed 'Miró' and illegibly signed again (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'Miró 31/XII/65 MUSIQUE DU CRÉPUSCULE III' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
8 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (22 x 27 cm.)
Painted in December 1965

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (no. 2124).
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in the 1980s, and thence by descent.

Literature

J.J. Sweeney, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1970, pl. 151 (illustrated).
M. Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, no. 98, p. 22 (illustrated pl. 98).
J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, vol. IV, 1959-1968, Paris, 2002, no. 1217, p. 169 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, L’Art vivant 1965-1968, April - June 1968, no. 86 (illustrated).
Barcelona, Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Miró, November 1968 - January 1969, no. 92.

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Lot Essay

‘Miró was synonymous with freedom – something more aerial, more liberated, lighter than anything I had seen before. In one sense he possessed absolute perfection. Miró could not put a dot on a sheet of paper without hitting square on the target. He was so truly a painter that it was enough for him to drop three spots of colour on the canvas, and it would come to life – it would be a painting.’ (A. Giacometti, quoted in P. Schneider, ‘Miró’, Horizon, no. 4, March 1959, pp. 70-81).

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