JOAN MIRó (1893-1983)

FEMME, OISEAUX, éTOILE

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JOAN MIRó (1893-1983)
FEMME, OISEAUX, éTOILE
SIGNED 'MIRó' (LOWER CENTRE)
PASTEL, GOUACHE AND INK ON SANDPAPER
40 3/4 X 28 1/4IN. (103.5 X 71.8CM.)
EXECUTED CIRCA 1942

来源

PRIVATE COLLECTION, SAN FRANCISCO AND THENCE BY DESCENT TO THE PRESENT OWNER.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, JULY-AUGUST 1951.

拍场告示

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MEDIUM OF THIS WORK IS SOFT PENCIL AND PASTEL ON SANDPAPER, WITH COLLAGE ELEMENTS OF INK ON PAPER AND NOT AS STATED IN THE CATALOGUE.

FURTHERMORE, THIS WORK IS SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED 'JOAN MIRó, LE SERPENT DE NUIT SE TRAîNANT SUR LA PRAIRIE FLEURIE DE FEMMES ET D'OISEAUX, PALMA MAJORQUE, 29.5.1942' (ON THE REVERSE).

拍品专文

SOLD WITH A PHOTO-CERTIFICATE FROM JACQUES DUPIN, DATED PARIS, LE 12 MAI 98.

THE PRESENT WORK WAS EXECTUED A YEAR AFTER THE COMPLETION OF MIRó'S FAMOUS "CONSTELLATION" SERIES AND SHARES WITH THIS A VOCABULARY OF PERSONAL AND ELEMENTARY SYMBOLS SIGNIFYING WOMEN, BIRDS, THE SUN, THE MOON AND STARS. HERE, HOWEVER, THE IMAGES HAVE BEEN EXTRICATED FROM THE COMPLEX WEBBING OF THE "CONSTELLATION" BACKGROUNDS. MEN IN THE FORM OF EXAGGERATED SEXUAL ORGANS, OR WITH TRIANGULAR SHAPED ANATOMIES AND GROTESQUE NOSES, CONSTITUTE A MENAGERIE OF TRAGI-COMIC CHARACTERS THAT CO-EXIST, YET APPEAR IN ISOLATION AGAINST A NEUTRAL GROUND. THEY ARE AT ONCE COMMONPLACE, WHIMSICAL AND FANTASTIC.