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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

JOAN MIRÓ | PEINTURE (FEMME AU CHAPEAU ROUGE)

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000,000 - 30,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION


JOAN MIRÓ

1893 - 1983

PEINTURE (FEMME AU CHAPEAU ROUGE)


signed Miró and dated 1927 (lower centre); signed Joan Miró and dated 1927 on the reverse

oil on canvas

130 by 97.2cm., 51⅛ by 38¼in.

Painted in 1927.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Sami Tarica, Paris

Theodore Schempp, Paris & New York (acquired from the above in the 1960s)

Private Collection, New York (sold: Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, 20th October 1966, lot 72) 

Perls Galleries, New York (purchased at the above sale)

Alexander & Louisa Calder, Saché (acquired from the above circa 1966)

Estate of Alexander Calder (in 1976)

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above in 1979)

Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above in 1980)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel & Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich (acquired jointly from the above in 1988)

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988

J. Dupin, Joan Miró. Life and Work, London, 1962, no. 195, illustrated p. 516 (titled Painting)

J. Johnson Sweeney, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1970, illustrated in colour p. 113

M. Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, no. 32

Maeght Editeur, Miró, l’artiste et l’œuvre, Paris, 1971, no. 47, illustrated p. 47 (titled Peinture)

A. Cirici, Miró-Mirall, Barcelona, 1977, no. 69, illustrated in colour p. 77 (titled Pintura)

J. Punyet Miró & G. Lolivier, Miró, Le peintre aux étoiles, Paris, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 42

P. E. Guerrero, Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder, New York, 1998, illustrated in colour in a photograph p. 134

J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings I. 1908-1930, Paris, 1999, vol. I, no. 276, illustrated in colour p. 207 (titled Peinture)

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, French Masters, 1953

Waltham, Massachussetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Modern French Painting, 1962

Houston, Festival of the Arts Exhibition, 1965, no. 70

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Old Masters in Twentieth Century European Art, 1965, no. 38

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Miró, 1968, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Peinture)

Barcelona, Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Miró, 1968-69, no. 24

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Miró in America, 1982

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Joan Miró in Miami, 1984, no. 1 (titled Untitled)