Persons Haunted by a Bird

Prints and Drawings

1938

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893-1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Persons Haunted by a Bird
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.: 1938–1983
Medium: Gouache and black crayon, with watercolor and touches of brown crayon, over traces of charcoal, on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower center, in image, in black ink: “Miró”; signed verso, center, in blue ink: “Joan Miró”; inscribed verso, center left, in blue ink: “HAUT”; center, in pen and blue ink: “personages hantés par un oiseau”; center, in blue ink: “6/XII/1938”
Dimensions: 41 × 33.1 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter B. Bensinger Charitable Trust
Reference Number: 1960.327
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Clement Greenberg, Joan Miró (New York, 1948), p. 39 (ill.).
Una E. Johnson, Drawings of the Masters, I (1964), p. 111 (ill.).
Judi Freeman, Picasso and the Weeping Woman, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, 1994), p. 30, fig. 7.

Chicago, Arts Club, “Joan Miró,” February 22-March 25, 1961, cat. 26.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 164.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916-1966,” February 28-April 11, 1966, cat. 80.
St. Louis, Mo., Washington University Art Gallery, “Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language,” March 19-April 27, 1980; traveled to Chicago, the Smart Art Gallery, University of Chicago, May 15-June 18, 1980.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism,” November 28, 1984-January 27, 1985.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Joan Miró: A Retrospective,” May 15-August 23, 1987, cat. 94; traveled to the Kunsthaus Zurich, November 21, 1986-January 2, 1987; and to Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, February 13-April 20, 1987.

Sold by Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1960.

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