LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on burlap

Size Notes:

25 1?2 x 32 in. (65 x 81.1 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Zwemmer Gallery, Selected early paintings and drawings by Joan Miró, May-June 1937, no. 12. Santa Barbara, University of California Art Gallery, A Selections of Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder, October-November 1966, p. 11, no. 34 (illustrated, p. 22). Paris, Galerie Malingue, Maîtres Impressionnistes et Modernes, October-December 1990, no. 20 (illustrated). Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Joan Miró: La naissance du monde, March-June 2004, p. 390, no. 117 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 217).

Literature:

P. Viladas, "A Life in Pictures" in House and Garden, April 1989, p. 156 (illustrated in color in situ in the Wilder apartment, Los Angeles). J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings, 1908-1930, Paris, 1999, vol. I, p. 220, no. 301 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Galerie Pierre, Paris. René Gaffé, Brussels. Roland Penrose, London (acquired from the above, July 1937). Zwemmer Gallery, London (by 1937). Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 29 April 1964, lot 112. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale). Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above). Audrey and Billy Wilder, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 28 November 1964); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1989, lot 39. Waddington Galleries, London. Private collection, Chicago. Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris. Private collection, France; sale, Christie's, London, 7 February 2005, lot 76. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.