About This Artwork

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983

Man, Women, and Bull, 1935

Oil and metal fasteners on sandpaper, mounted on canvas, with feathers
42 1/2 x 39 in. (108 x 99 cm) overall
Signed on sandpaper, u.c.: "Miró"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold X. Weinstein, 1960.908

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Joan Miró: Works from Chicago Collections, February 22–May 25, 1961, no. 22.

Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of the Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to: Nagoya, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.

Publication History

Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work (New York, 1962), p. 531 (ill.).

Jacques Dupin, Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings (Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1999), no. 444.

Ownership History

Igor Markevitch, Switzerland (died 1983), until 1939 [letters January 6 and 7, 2004 from Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, ADOM, in curatorial file]; sold by him to Gérald Cramer, Geneva, 1939–1945 [letters mentioned above]; sold by him to Igor Markevitch, Switzerland, 1945 [letters mentioned above]; sold by him to Gérald Cramer, Geneva, 1945 [letter November 19, 1990 from Gérald Cramer, in curatorial file]; sold by him to Richard Feigen & Co., Chicago, in 1960 [letter November 19, 1990 mentioned above]; sold by the gallery to Mr. and Mrs. Harold X. Weinstein, Chicago, March 8, 1960 [letter February 26, 1976 from Lotte Drew-Bear, Richard Feigen and Co. in curatorial file]; given by them to the Art Institute, 1960.