Joan Miró, 1938 and 1941

Not on View

Medium

drypoint in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 33.7 x 27.8 cm (13 1/4 x 10 15/16 in.)

sheet: 49.5 x 38.1 cm (19 1/2 x 15 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Milet 1991, no. 193, State xxi/xxi

Accession Number

1979.37.1

Artists / Makers

Louis Casimir Ladislas Marcoussis (artist) French, born Poland, 1883 - 1941

Joan Miró (artist) Spanish, 1893 - 1983

Galerie Pierre (publisher) 1924 - 1964

Roger Lacourière (printer) French, 1892 - 1966

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Inscription

lower right below plate mark in graphite, signed by Miro after the death of Marcoussis in 1948: Marcoussis / Miró / 1938; lower left below plate mark in graphite: 18/50; lower center in plate: Joan Miro; lower left in plate: pluie / de lyres / CIRQUES / DE MELANCOLIE

Exhibition History

1987: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1987-1988.

Bibliography

1984: Dupin, Jacques. Miró Graveur 1. Paris: Daniel Lelong, 1984, no. 54.

1991: Milet, Solange. Louis Marcoussis: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé. Copenhagen: Forlaget Cordelia, 1991.