Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale

Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale

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Property from an American Private Collector

Joan Miró

Femme et oiseau | 《女子與鳥兒》

Auction Closed

March 25, 08:05 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Private Collector


Joan Miró

胡安・米羅

1893 - 1983

Femme et oiseau

《女子與鳥兒》


inscribed Miró, numbered N.1 and stamped with the foundry mark CLEMENTI CIRE PERDUE

款識:藝術家銘刻Miró、標記N.1並蓋鑄造廠章CLEMENTI CIRE PERDUE

painted bronze

著色青銅

height: 120cm., 47¼in.

高:120公分;47 1/4 英寸

Conceived and cast in bronze in 1967 in a numbered edition of 6.

1967年構思並鑄銅,1版6件。

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Dr Robert & Helena Mandelbaum, New York (acquired from the above on 22nd July 1976. Sold: Christie's, New York, 5th November 2014, lot 29)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
J. Johnson Sweeney, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1970, no. 228, another cast illustrated in colour n.p. (titled Homme au chapeau and as dating from 1968)
M. Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, no. 168, another cast illustrated p. 24 (as dating from 1968)
A. Jouffroy & J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1974, no. 89, another cast illustrated in colour p. 198 (with incorrect measurements)
Fundació Joan Miró (ed.), Obra de Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1979, no. 229, another cast illustrated p. 157 (with incorrect measurements)
A. Jouffroy & J. Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, no. 89, another cast illustrated in colour p. 26
R.M. Malet, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1983, no. 126, another cast illustrated in colour p. 128
J. Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Madrid, 1993, no. 3, another cast illustrated in colour p. 48
P. Gimferrer, Les Arrels de Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 1207, another cast illustrated in colour p. 300 (with incorrect measurements)
J. Mink, Joan Miró, Cologne, 1993, no. 83, another cast illustrated in colour p. 96
J.M. Faerna García-Bermejo, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1994, no. 67, another cast illustrated in colour
E. Fernández Miró & P. Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró. Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 100, another cast illustrated in colour p. 111
J. Dupin, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2009, another cast illustrated in colour p. 89
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art & Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Miró Sculptures, 1971-72, no. 16, illustrated in the catalogue 
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró. Painted Sculpture and Ceramics, 1980, no. 5, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, 2001