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Femme dans la nuit
(Joan Miro)

Description

Miro painted the series of gouaches called ‘Constellations’ between the 24th January 1940 and the 12th September 1941.

Measurements
47.3 x 38.3 cm
Type
Gouache on paper
Provenance

JOAN MIRO
1893-1983

Femme dans la nuit, 1940

Gouche on paper
47.3 x 38.3 cm.

PROVENANCE: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Mme Marcel Duchamp, New York 1958.
World Arts Establishment, Liechtenstein.
Private Collection, USA.

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Literature

LITERATURE: Andre Breton, ‘Les constellations de Miro’, in L’Oeil, Paris, December 1958, p. 54, rep. colour.
Andre Breton, ‘Joan Miro: Constellations’, in L’Oeil, New York, December 1959, No. 9 rep.
‘Modern Art Yesterday and Today’, Georges and Rosamond Bernier, editors, New York, 1960, p. 77 rep. colour (re-edition and translation of the L’Oeil article).
Jacques Dupin, ‘Miro’, Abrams, New York, 1962, p. 542, No. 546 rep

Exhibited

EXHIBITIONS: 1945, New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miro, No. 8.
1977, Northridge, California State University, ‘Fundamental Aspects of Modernism’, No. 42, rep. colour.
1979, Cleveland Museum of Art, ‘The Spirit of Surrealism’, p. 81, No. 36.

Where is It?
Acquired through The Matthiesen Gakkery by an American collector
Historical Period
Modern - 1890-1930
Subject
Genre or Daily Life
School
Spanish
Price band
Sold or not available