The Anti-Head: The Despairing One (L’Antitête: Le Désespéranto)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Joan Miró

Title

The Anti-Head: The Despairing One (L’Antitête: Le Désespéranto)

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

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1949

Medium

Book with eight color etchings, with letterpress in black, on ivory laid paper, in box

Dimensions

Box: 15.2 × 12 × 8.7 cm (6 × 4 3/4 × 3 7/16 in.); Book: 14.2 × 11.7 × 2.6 cm (5 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 1 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.504

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