Woman

1977

Josep Royo

Weaver, Spanish, born 1945

Joan Miró

Artist After, Spanish, 1893 - 1983

after Joan Miró, woven by Josep Royo

Attributed to

The abstracted form of a woman is made with blocks of cherry red, pine green, cobalt blue, black, and one canary yellow-shape on this vertical, woven tapestry. The ivory-white background of the tapestry is dotted and streaked with light and dark brown and black, and it’s fringed along the bottom. The colorful shapes roughly make up the form of a person with a headdress, arms, one foot, and perhaps a skirt. A grid of red, blue, and black blocks are also in the lower right corner. The weaving is not uniform, and ends hang down in many areas. The texture varies from fine, uniform stitches to scale-like sections. The artists’ names are woven into the tapestry near the middle of the right edge, “Miró” and “Royo.”
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Commissioned 1977 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1997

  • Mittler, Gene A., and Rosalind Ragans. Understanding Art. New York, 1997: fig. 2-13.

Wikidata ID

Q62287533


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