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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 47A | $****** - ****** | Peinture-poème (Bonheur d'aimer ma brune) |
paintings
73 x 92.1 cm (28.75 x 36.25 in)
oil on canvas
inscribed ‘Bonheur d’aimer ma brune’ (upper left), signed and dated ‘Miró 1925’ (lower right)
Raymond Queneau, Neuilly-sur-Seine (acquired from the artist and until at least 1963).
Galerie Tarica, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner, by 1975.
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Joan Miró, June-November 1962, p. 29, no. 31.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, May-August 1994, p. 563, no. 453 (illustrated in color, fig. 108).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Miró, June-November 1997, p. 42, no. 11 (illustrated in color, p. 43).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Joan Miró: Creator of New Worlds, May 1998-January 1999, no. 13 (illustrated in color).
Koblenz, Ludwig Museum, Deutschland-Frankreich, Dialoge der Kunst im XX. Jahrhundert, September-November 1999, p. 249, no. 43 (illustrated in color, p. 132).
Vienna, Kunstforum Wien, Miró. Später Rebell, March-June 2001, p. 86, no. 3 (illustrated in color, p. 87).
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais and Barcleona, Museu Picasso, Paris Barcelone: De Gaudi à Miró, October 2001-May 2002, p. 418 (illustrated in color).
Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Joan Miró: Snail Woman Flower Star, July-October 2002, p. 234, no. 11 (illustrated in color, p. 134).
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Art and Utopia, Limited Action, June-September 2004, p. 398, no. 412 (illustrated in color, p. 175).
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Paris i els surrealistes, February-September 2005, p. 182 (illustrated in color).
J. Lassaigne, Miró, Paris, 1963, p. 47 (illustrated in color).
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné, paintings, 1908-1930, Paris, 1999, vol. I, p. 114, no. 128 (illustrated in color).
C. Rubini and F. Bodet, The Little Book of Miró, Paris, 2004, pp. 12-13 (illustrated in color; with inverted dimensions).
inscribed ‘Bonheur d’aimer ma brune’ (upper left); signed and dated ‘Miró 1925’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 36 ¼ in. (73 x 92 cm.)
Painted in 1925
