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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

44 x 57

Description:

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Markings:

signed Mir, dated 7-5-45 and titled (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Joan Mir, 1948, no. 63 (titled Femme et toiles); Stockholm, Galerie Blanche, Joan Miro??, ma?lningar, keramik, litografier, 1949, no. 6 (titled Femme, toile); Ithaca,Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Solinger, 1956, no.16 (titledWoman and Stars); New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joan Mir, 1993-94, no. 179, p. 268, illustrated in color; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 117, illustrated in color

Literature:

Tristan Tzara, Pour passer le temps,'Cahiers dart, vols. 20-21, Paris, 1945-46, p. 288, illustrated (titled Femme et toiles); Jacques Dupin, Mir, Life and Work, New York, 1962, no. 656, p. 550, illustrated (titled Woman, Star); Jacques Dupin, Joan Mir: Catalogue Raisonne: Paintings, vol. III, Paris, 2001, no. 756, p. 80, illustrated

Provenance:

Galerie Pierre, Paris; Galerie Maeght, Paris; Acquired from the above in 1951 by the present owner