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Inscription

lower right side: Miró / 2/2 / SUSSE FONDEUR.PARIS

Marks and Labels

FM: SUSSE FONDEUR.PARIS

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Aimé Maeght, Paris;[1] (Galerie Maeght, Paris); purchased 12 June 1992 by NGA.

[1] Apparently Aimé Maeght liked the small maquette the artist made of the work, and agreed to buy the cast numbered 2/2 of the large version Miró wanted to do. This cast was the only one completed in the artist's lifetime. (See letter of 9 October 1991 from Shane Dunworth to Jeremy Strick, in NGA curatorial files). The credit for the loan of the sculpture to exhibitions in 1979, 1981, and 1986-1987 is to Galerie Maeght, Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul), and Mr. and Mrs. Adrien Maeght (Paris), respectively.

Exhibition History

1979: Joan Miró: Peintures, Sculptures, Dessins, Céramiques 1956-1979, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France, 1979, no. 308, repro.

1981: Miró Milano: Pittura, Scultura, Ceramica, Disegni, Sobreteixims, Grafica, Palazzo del Senato (and other venues in Milan), 1981, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1986: Miró: Escultor, Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1986-1987, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

2013: Cigola, Francesca. Art Parks: A Tour of America’s Sculpture Parks and Gardens. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013: 101.

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