Modern Day Auction
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Property from an Important American Collector
Joan Miró
Oiseau migrateur posé sur la tête d'une femme en pleine nuit
Auction Closed
May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Collector
Joan Miró
1893 – 1983
Oiseau migrateur posé sur la tête d'une femme en pleine nuit
bronze
inscribed Miró, stamped with the foundry mark Clementi Cire Perdue and numbered 3/4 (along the base)
height: 16 ½ in. 41.9 cm.
Conceived in 1969 and cast by Fonderie T. Clementi, Meudon, Paris.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Acquavella Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in August 2009 by the present owners
Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró: Sculptures, Paris, 1974, no. 164, p. 118, illustration of another cast and p. 236 (dated 1970)
Pere Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, New York, 1993, no. 1241, p. 405, illustration of another cast (dated 1970)
Emilio Fernandez-Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró: Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 136, p. 145, illustration of another cast in color
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