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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2014 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 109 | $****** - ****** | Tête d'homme IV (Head of a Man IV) |
paintings
60.5 x 66 cm (23.82 x 25.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Miró. 4.31.' (lower right); titled and numbered 'IV' (on the reverse).
Christian Zervos, a gift from the artist circa 1931.
Private collection, Zurich, by 1949, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, Margrit Linck i Oskar Dalvit, April - May 1949, no. 15, p. 7.Basel, Kunsthalle, Joan Miró, March - April 1956, no. 32 (illustrated on the catalogue cover).London, Tate Gallery, Joan Miro´, Painting, sculpture and ceramics, August - October 1964, no. 91, p. 30 (illustrated pl. 18b, titled 'Head of a Man II'); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, October - December 1964. Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, August - October 1966, no. 38, illustrated p. 51; this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, October - November 1966.Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan vital oder das Auge des Eros, May - August 1994, no. 497 (illustrated upside down fig. 336).Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Calder Miró, May - September 2004, no. 101 (illustrated p. 115).Vézelay, Musée Zervos, 2007 (on loan).
J. Dupin, Joan Miró, Life and Work, London, 1962, no. 270, p. 522 (illustrated).J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Paintings, vol. II, 1931-1941, Paris, 2000, no. 350, p. 31 (illustrated).'Miró s'installe à Vézelay' in L' Yonne républicaine, 15-16 September 2007, illustrated.
