Figure

1932

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983

Status: On View, Gallery 393
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Figure
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.: 1932
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "Miró"
Dimensions: 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.141.13
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

“Pierre Matisse Exhibits Miró,” The Art News 32, no. 14 (January 1934), p. 4.
Eleanor Jewett, “Three Exhibits Get Attention at Arts Club,” Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1934.
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work (New York, 1962), p. 526 (ill.).
Carolyn Lanchner, Joan Miró (New York, 1993), p. 398 (ill.).
Milwaukee Art Museum, Jim Nutt (Milwaukee, 1994), p. 64 (ill.). Donna De Salvo, Staging Surrealism (Columbus,1997), p. 82 (ill).
Jacques Dupin, Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings (Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1999), no. 398.

London, Mayor Gallery, Paintings by Joan Miró, July 1933, no. 9.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró, December 29, 1933–January 18, 1934, no. 4.
Chicago, Arts Club, Paintings by Joan Miró, March 16–30, 1934, no. 3.
Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Important Recent Acquisitions, April 1–May 15, 1960, no. 31.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, October 17, 1993–January, 11, 1994, no. 99.
Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections, September 2, 1997– January 4, 1998, p. 82.
Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Calder/Miró, May 2–September 5, 2004; traveled to Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, October 9–January 23, 2005.

Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris, by December 1932 . Yvonne Zervos, Paris. The Mayor Gallery, London. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by March 1934 [according to correspondence between Pierre Matisse and The Arts Club of Chicago, 1934 in curatorial file]. Galerie Berggruen & Cie., Paris, not before 1950. Richard L. Feigen & Co., Chicago, by 1960. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, July 1960 [as per Leigh Block’s Index Card Inventory, in curatorial file]. Gift of Mary and Leigh Block to the Art Institute, 1988.

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