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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Femme et oiseau V/X
signed with initial 'M' (lower left); signed again, dated, titled and numbered 'MIRÓ. 14/5/60 FEMME ET OISEAU V/X' (on the reverse)
oil on burlap
21 3/8 x 16 3/4 in. (54.3 x 42.5 cm.)
Painted on 14 May 1960
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Galerie Urban, Paris.
Galleria Levi, Milan.
Helly Nahmad Gallery, London (by 1999).
Anon. (2015); sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 February 2018, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Dupin, Joan Miró Life and Work, London, 1962, p. 571, no. 936 (illustrated; dated 6 May 1960 and with incorrect dimensions).
Y. Taillandier, Creación Miró 1961, Barcelona, 1962, p. 13 (illustrated in color).
C. Simon and J. Miró, Femmes, Paris, 1965 (illustrated in color, pl. 18).
M. Rowell, Joan Miró Peinture=poésie, Paris, 1976, p. 93 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró Catalogue raisonné, Paintings, 1959-1968, Paris, 2002, vol. IV, p. 70, no. 1091 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Maeght, Miró: Peintures, murales, 1961.
Tokyo, Galerie Tamenaga; Osaka, Umeda Museum of Modern Art and Nagoya, Maruei Art Gallery, Miró: Peintures récentes, 1960-1978, March-May 1979, no. 5 (illustrated in color; dated 6 May 1960).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Arp & Miró, June-September 1999, p. 49, no. 24.
London, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Miró, October 1999-January 2000, p. 47, no. 38 (illustrated in color).