LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and Ripolin on canvas

Size Notes:

15 x 47

Description:

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Markings:

signed Mir and titled (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Joan Mir, 1948, no. 65 (with incorrect dimensions); Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Solinger, 1956, no. 20 (titledWoman and Birds Facing the Sun); Ithaca,Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 118, illustrated in color

Literature:

Jacques Dupin, Mir, Life and Work, New York, 1962, no. 665, p. 551, illustrated (titled Woman and Bird in front of the Sun); Jacques Dupin, Joan Mir: Catalogue Raisonne, Paintings, vol. III, Paris, 2001, no. 774, p. 93, illustrated

Provenance:

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