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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2021 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 71C | $****** - ****** | Peinture poème (Musique, Seine, Michel, Bataille et Moi) |
paintings
81 x 100 cm (31.88 x 39.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Miró. 1927.' (lower left); signed and dated again 'Joan Miró. 1927.' (on the reverse)
Galerie Pierre, Paris.
René Gaffé, Brussels (probably acquired from the above).
Roland Penrose, London (acquired from the above, by December 1939).
Galerie Hans Ulrich Gasser, Zürich.
Dr. Heinz Keller, Winterthur.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1969.
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Selected Early Paintings and Drawings by Joan Miró , May-June 1937, no. 13 (titled Musique ).
The London Gallery, Joan Miró, Desmond Morris, and Cyril Hamersma , February 1950, no. 8 (titled Musique ).
Kunsthalle Basel, Joan Miró , March-April 1956, no. 26.
London, Tate Gallery and Kunsthaus Zürich, Joan Miró , August-December 1964, p. 27, no. 73.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (on extended loan, January 1969-2012).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joan Miró: Magnetic Fields , October 1972-January 1973, p. 118, no. 28 (illustrated).
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Experiment Sammlung II, Fünf Sammlungen für das Museum , June-August 1984, p. 44 (illustrated in color, p. 47).
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Vom Klang der Bilder, Die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts , July-September 1985, p. 244, no. 383 (illustrated in color).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joan Miró. Campo de Estrellas , January-March 1993, p. 76, no. 20 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró , October 1993-January 1994, pp. 386-387, no. 62 (illustrated in color, p. 145).
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Joan Miró , March-June 2004, p. 389, no. 105 (illustrated in color, p. 192; illustrated again, p. 389).
Metz, Centre Pompidou, Leiris & Co. Picasso, Masson, Miró, Giacometti, Lam, Bacon… , April-September 2015, p. 94, no. 195 (illustrated in color, p. 95).
E. Hüttinger, Miró , Bern, 1957 (illustrated, fig. 18).
J. Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work , London, 1962, p. 516, no. 192 (illustrated).
W. Rubin, Miró in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art , New York, 1973, p. 126 (illustrated, fig. 50).
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Katalog, Sammlung der Gemälde und Plastischen des Kunstvereins , Winterthur, 1976, no. 603.
M. Rowell, Joan Miró , Peinture = poésie , Paris, 1976, p. 130 (illustrated).
M. Rowell, ed., Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews , Boston, 1986, pp. 90, 103 and 313, note 23.
J. Miró, "Memories of the Rue Blomet" in Joan Miró, A Retrospective , exh. cat., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1987, p. 31.
W. Jeffett, "Chronology" in Joan Miró, Paintings & Drawings 1929-1941 , exh. cat., Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1988, p. 121 (illustrated).
J. Freeman, The Dada & Surrealist Word-Image , exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989, p. 45 (illustrated, fig. 38).
W. Jeffett, "Chronology" in Joan Miró, Paintings and Drawings, 1929-1941 , exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989, p. 121 (illustrated).
G. Raillard, Miró , London, 1989, p. 84 (titled Musique, Michel [Leiris], Bataille et Moi ).
R. Koella and D. Schwarz, eds., Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Modern Art from the Collection of the Kunstverein , Frankfurt, 1992, pp. 152-153 (illustrated, p. 153).
J. Dupin, Miró , Barcelona, 1993, pp. 128-129 (illustrated, p. 129, fig. 134).
P. Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró , New York, 1993, p. 350, no. 355 (illustrated).
R. Krauss, "Michel, Bataille et moi" in October, spring 1994, vol. 68, p. 3 (illustrated, p. 4).
R. Krauss, "Michel, Bataille et moi" in Artforum , January 1994, vol. 32, no. 5, p. 73 (illustrated in color).
J. Dupin and A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné. Paintings , 1908-1930 , New York, 1999, vol. I, p. 196, no. 260 (illustrated in color).
C. Palermo, Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s , State College, 2008, p. 100 (illustrated in color, p. 101, fig. 40; illustrated again in color on the cover).
A. Umland, Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008, p. 32 (illustrated in color, fig. 1).
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Peinture poème (Musique, Seine, Michel, Bataille et Moi)
signed and dated 'Miró. 1927.' (lower left); signed and dated again 'Joan Miró. 1927.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. (81 x 100 cm.)
Painted in January-February 1927
