Composition (Lignes et taches sur fond beige)

1929

Joan Miró

Artist, Spanish, 1893 - 1983

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ernst Beyeler, Basel, by 1993); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX, 1997; bequest to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1993

  • Joan Miró: camp de estrellas. Museo nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid, 1993, no. 33, repro. p. 87 (color).

2004

  • Joan Miró, 1917-1934, La naissance du monde. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004, 248, 395, no. 162 (color).

Bibliography

1994

  • Escudero i Anglès, Carme. "Theatrum Chemicum: Miró and the Art of Transmutation." In Miró en escena, exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1993: 373-374.

1997

  • Umland, Anne. "Joan Miró and Collage in the 1920s. The Dialectic of Painting and Anti-Painting." Ph.D. dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2 vols., 1997, unpublished: 684-685, app. B10 (reprod.).

Inscriptions

upper left verso in black ink: miró [underlined] / été 1929

Markings

upper left verso circular stamp in black ink: [undeciphered] / 8 Oct 76 [?] / Roissy

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