Femme

Details

Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Femme
signed 'Miró ' (on the right side), numbered and with the foundry mark 'Fonderie T. Clementi N. 1' (on the left side)
bronze with brown patina
H: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.)
Conceived in 1970 and cast in an edition of 6

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by Leslie Waddington.

Literature

A. Jouffroy & J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, no. 177, p. 237 (another cast illustrated).
Fundacio Joan Miró, Obra de Joan Miro, Barcelona, 1988, no. 1587, p. 433 (another cast illustrated).
F. Miró & P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 190, p. 190 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Joan Miró: 18 Bronzeplastiken, March - April 1996, no. 7 (illustrated).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Joan Miró: Métamorphoses des formes, April - June 2001, no. 112, p. 227 (illustrated p. 31).
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Two Pataphysicians: Flanagan - Miró, October - November 2014, no. 5, p. 24 (illustrated p. 25).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from ADOM (Association pour la défense de l'oeuvre de Joan Miró).

‘It is in sculpture that I will create a truly phantasmagoric world of living monsters'.

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