Lot 206
  • 206

Joan Miró

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Composition
  • Signed Miró (lower right)
  • Brush and ink on paper
  • 20 1/8 by 26 1/4 in.
  • 51.1 by 66.7 cm

Provenance

Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills
Acquired from the above on April 14, 1977

Literature

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, 1938-1959, vol. II, Paris, 2010, no. 1313, illustrated p. 239

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The edges are slightly irregular and there are faint old mat stains along the extreme perimeter. Remnants of old framer's tape visible on verso of the upper edge. There are artists pinholes in each of the corners and at the center of each edge. Four tiny tears to the edge of the sheet: at right lower edge, center left and upper edges.Some minor light discoloration to the sheet and scattered small studio stains.
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