Persons Haunted by a Bird

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Joan Miró

Title

Persons Haunted by a Bird

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1938–1983

Medium

Gouache and black crayon, with watercolor and touches of brown crayon, over traces of charcoal, on off-white wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed lower center, in image, in black ink: “Miró”; signed verso, center, in blue ink: “Joan Miró”; inscribed verso, center left, in blue ink: “HAUT”; center, in pen and blue ink: “personages hantés par un oiseau”; center, in blue ink: “6/XII/1938”

Dimensions

41 × 33.1 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter B. Bensinger Charitable Trust

Reference Number

1960.327

Copyright

© 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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