Object Information
Portrait of Juanita Obrador, 1918
Oil on canvas
27 3/8 x 24 3/8 in. (69.5 x 62 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Miro/1918
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1957.78
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Joan Miró, January–February 1956, no. 5, n.p. (ill.); traveled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, February–March 1956, as Portrait á la tapisserie.
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Joan Miró March 24–April 29, 1956, no. 5, as Portrait á la tapisserie.
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Miró, July 16–September 30, 1968, no. 5.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Joan Miró, October 18–November 18, 1972, no. 5.
Paris, Grand Palais, Joan Miró, May 17–October 13, 1974, no. 4.
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Miró: Selected Paintings , March 20–June 8, 1980; traveled to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, June 27–August 17, 1980.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Joan Miró, November 21, 1986-February 1, 1987; traveled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, February 14-April 20, 1987 and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 15-August 23, 1987.
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miró: 1893–1993, April 20–August 30, 1993, no. 31.
Publication History
Joseph Fontales Ráfols, "Miró antes de ‘La Masia’" Anales y boletín de los museos de arte de Barcelona, vol. 6, no. 3–4 (July-December 1948): 497–502, ill. n.p.
Jacques Revert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró (Paris, 1956), ill. opp. p. 109.
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly XX (Autumn 1957), p. 326 (ill.), fig. 3.
Eduard Hüttinger, Miró (Bern, 1957), pp. 10–11, fig. 5.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), pp. 314, 430 (ill.).
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, trans. By Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), pp. 80, 81, 505, fig. 53.
Jacques Lassaigne, Miró, trans. Stuart Gilbert (Geneva, 1963), pp. 21, 23 (ill.).
Yves Bonnefoy, Miró (Milan, 1964), p. 8, fig. 5.
A. James Speyer, "Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,"Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 225.
Mario Bucci, Joan Miró: I Meastri del Novecento (Florence and Paris, 1968), pp. 16–17, fig. 9.
Juan Perucho, Joan Miró and Catalonia (New York, 1968), p. 50, fig. 26.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 271 (ill.).
Michel Chilo, Miró: L’Artiste et l’Oeuvre, Archives Maeght 2 (Paris, 1971), pl. 29.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 56, 2G7.
Ownership History
Aimé Maeght (Galerie Maeght), Paris, acquired directly from the artist by March 1956 [letter April 12, 2003 from Kunsthalle Basel and letter July 15, 2003 from Association pour la défense de l’oeuvre de Joan Miró, in curatorial file]; sold to an unnamed Paris dealer [letter October 26, 1976 from Pierre Matisse Gallery, in curatorial file]; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by 1957 [letter October 26, 1976 mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute through Joseph Winterbotham Collection funds, 1957.