Group of Personages

Prints and Drawings

1937

Miró, Joan
Spanish, 1893-1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Group of Personages
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.: Made 1937
Medium: Watercolor and black crayon, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in black crayon over graphite: "miró"; inscribed verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "MIRÓ / 'Groupe de personnages' / 30/9/37"
Dimensions: 49.5 × 64.5 cm (19 1/2 × 25 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Gecht Family
Reference Number: 2015.267
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jacques Dupin, Joan Miro: His Life and Work (New York, 1961 or 1962), p. 276, no. 58 (ill.).

Los Angeles County Museum, “Joan Miró,” 10 June-21 July 1959, no. 66.
Pasadena Art Museum, “Mr. and Mrs. Max Zurier Collection,” 30 April-21 May 1963, no. 43.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2003 – Jan. 11, 2004, pp. 110–11, cat. 92 (ill.).

Max Zurier (died 1984), Palm Springs, Cal., by June 1959-at least September 1979 [Los Angeles 1959 exh. cat.; letter from Jacques Dupin to Zurier dated 12 September 1979 in Gecht collection files]. Sold by B.C. Holland, Chicago, to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht, Chicago, 1987.

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