About This Artwork

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983

The Policeman, 1925

Oil on canvas
97 5/8 x 76 3/4 in. (248 x 194.9 cm)
signed and dated lower left: Miró./1925.
signed and dated on verso: Joan Miró./1925.
Bequest of Claire Zeisler, 1991.1499

© 2008 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Joan Miro, January–February 1956, n.p. (ill.), no. 14; travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, February–March, 1956.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, March 27–June 9, 1968, no. 85; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 16–September 8, 1968, and Art Institute, October 19–December 8, 1968.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miro, October 17, 1993–January 11, 1994, no 44.

Publication History

Jacques Dupin, “Joan Miró,” Quadrum I (May 1956), pp. 95-106, ill. opp. p. 98.

René Gaffé, “Miró au Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.” Prisme des Arts, no. 1(March 1956).

Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró. Life and Work (New York, 1961), p. 510 (ill.).

Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work (New York, 1962), fig. 121.

René Gaffé, La verticale: Réflexions d'un collectionneur (Bruxelles, 1963). .

William Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage (New York, 1968), fig. 85.

Charles Stuckey, French Painting (Southport, 1991), p. 267.

Pere Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró (Barcelona, 1993), p. 342 (ill.).

Charles Stuckey, “Selected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Burlington Magazine (October 1993), pp. 725-28 (ill.).

Carolyn Lanchner, Joan Miro (New York, 1993), pp. 132 (ill.), 380 (ill.), 381, as The Policeman (Figure and Horse).

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró. Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings (Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1999), pp. 126–7 (ill.), no. 127, as Le Gendarme, The Policeman.

Ownership History

Jacques Viot (Galerie Pierre), Paris, acquired directly from artist, late October–early November 1925 [Lanchner 1993]. René Gaffé, Brussels, by June 1928–at least 1962 [Lanchner 1993]; sold to Norman Granz, Galerie Verve, Breganzona, Switzerland, around 1962–to at least April 1963 [Lanchner 1993]; sold to Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, April 1963 [letter April 12, 2001 from Richard Feigen and Co.]; sold to Claire Zeisler, Chicago, 27 April 1963–99 [letter listed above]; bequeathed to the Art Institite, 1999.