Night Birds

Prints and Drawings

1938

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893-1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Night Birds
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
Medium: Gouache and graphite, with scraping, on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 32.1 × 49.1 cm (12 11/16 × 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.632
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Arts Club of Chicago, “Joan Miró,” February 22-March 25, 1961, cat. 25.
Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, “Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” December 20, 1969-June 18, 1970, cat. 116.
Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum, “Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language,” May 15-June 18, 1980, cat. 58; traveled to the University of Washington Gallery of Art in St Louis, March 19-April 27, 1980.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 91 and 111, cat. 120, fig. 90.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Twentieth Century Collections Reinstalled,” June 7, 1991-February 28, 1992.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by February 1961 [Chicago 1961]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.

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