National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Head of a Catalan Peasant
  • Inscription
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  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

lower right: Miro / 1924; on reverse: Joan Miro, Tete de Paysan Catalan, 1924

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Provenance

(Galerie Pierre, Paris), by October 1934.[1] private collection, Switzerland. (Galerie Marie-Louise Jeanneret, Geneva). (Paul Haim, Paris); purchased 1980 by (Acquavella Galleries, New York);[2] purchased 10 February 1981 by NGA.

[1] Carolyn Lanchner, Joan Miró, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993: 378, no. 39, gives this date, likely because Galerie Pierre lent the painting to an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich that opened then. Galerie Pierre also lent the painting to the 1936 International Surrealist exhibition, but Pierre Loeb closed his gallery in 1939 and did not re-open it until 1945. It is not yet known when the painting left his possession and was acquired by the Swiss private collection.

[2] This information was provided by Acquavella Galleries in July 2004 (see notes of a phone conversation between Acquavella Galleries and NGA intern Jennifer Sudul, in NGA curatorial files). .

Exhibition History

1934
Probably Ausstellung [an exhibition of work by Arp, Ernst, Giacometti, González, and Miró], Kunsthaus Zürich, 1934, no. 86.
1936
International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, 1936, no. 210.
1980
XIX & XX Century Master Paintings, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980, no. 13, color repro.
1982
Miró in Ameria, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 5.
1993
Joan Miró: 1893-1993, Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 62, repro.
1993
Joan Miró: Campo de Estrellas, Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1993, no. 7, repro.
1993
Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993-1994, no. 39, repro.
1997
Joan Miró: Campesino catalán con guitarra, 1924, Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1997-1998, no. 1, repro.
1998
Joan Miró, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1998-1999, no. 17, repro.
2004
Joan Miró 1917-1934: La Naissance du Monde [Joan Miró 1917-1934: The Birth of the World], Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2004, no. 58, repro.
2008
La invención del siglo XX. Carl Einstein y las vanguardias [The Invention of the 20th Century. Carl Einstein and the Avant-garde], Museo Nacional Central de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2008-2009, no. 95, repro.
2008
Miró: la tierra [Miro: the Earth], Exhibit Halls, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2008, no. 13, repro.
2011
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, Tate, London; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011-2012, no. 29, repro.

Bibliography

1962
Dupin, Jacques. Miró. New York, 1962: 162, 166.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 270, repro.
1989
Kramer, Hilton. "Modern Art at the National Gallery." The New Criterion 7, no. 8 (April 1989): 3.
2000
Kirsh, Andrea, and Levenson, Rustin S. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies, vol. 1. New Haven, 2000: 264.

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