The Two Philosophers

February 4–12, 1936

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983

Status: On View, Gallery 393
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: The Two Philosophers
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.: 1936
Medium: Oil on copper
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 35.6 × 49.8 cm (14 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.141.14
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

A. E. Gallatin, Museum of the Living Art: A. E. Gallatin Collection 1937 (New York: George Grady Press, 1936) (ill.), n.p.
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, translated by Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), p. 285, no. 427, p. 533 (ill.).
Penrose, 1969, p. 80, pl. 54, p. 81 (ill.).
James N. Wood, Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpure (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996) p. 71 (ill.).
Jacques Dupin, Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings (Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1999).
Jim Coddington and Robert S. Lubar, “The Language of Materials,” and “Small Paintings on Masonite and Copper,” Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. Exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008), p. 20, ill. 183, p. 184, ill. 193, pl. 94.

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró, November 30–December 26, 1936, no. 22.
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró: “Peintures Sauvages” 1934 to 1953, November 4–29, 1958, no. 5 (ill.).
Arts Council of Great Britain, Joan Miró, p. 36; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, Joan Miró, August 27-October 11, 1964; Zürich, Kunsthaus, October 31–December 6, 1964.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, October 13, 1993–January 18, 1994, no. 135, pp. 212 (ill.), 409 (ill.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937, November 1, 2008–January 12, 2009 (plate 94).

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1936–60. Sold to Leigh B. Block, January 1960. Gift to Art Institute, 1960.

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