Lot 211
  • 211

Joan Miró

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Composition pour Madame Zadok
  • Signed Miró and dedicted A Madame Zadok, pour que 1962 lui apporte le sourire des cérisiers en fleur (along bottom & right edges)
  • Brush and ink and watercolor on paper
  • 16 1/2 by 25 1/4 in.
  • 40.5 by 64 cm

Provenance

Genia Zadok, New York (acquired directly from the artist and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, October 7, 1988, lot 188)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné. Drawings, vol. III, Paris, 2012, no. 1726, illustrated in color p. 61

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is hinged to a mount at all four corners of its verso. All four edges of the sheet are deckled. There are artist's pinholes at all four corners. The sheet is lightly undulating. There is some minor scattered staining throughout the sheet. The work is in good condition.
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