Femme

Details

Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Femme
signed and numbered 'Miró 4/6' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12 3/8 in. (31.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1967

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Chalette International (Madeleine Chalette Lejwa), New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1983.

Literature

A. Jouffroy and J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1973, p. 280, p. 196, no. 72 (another cast illustrated, p. 56; with incorrect dimensions).
E.F. Miró and P.O. Chapel, Joan Miró Sculptures: Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, p. 106, no. 96 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 107; with incorrect dimensions).

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Lot Essay

This work was executed from the ceramic Femme of 1945, now in a private collection, Barcelona (Miró and Artigas, no. 26). On the multiplicity and mutability of his work, Miró has said, "Forms give birth to other forms, constantly changing into something else. They become each other and in this way create the reality of a universe of signs and symbols in which figures pass from one realm to another, their feet touching the roots, becoming roots themselves as they disappear into the flowing hair of the constellations" (quoted in M. Rowell, ed., Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews, London, 1987, p. 240).

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