Composition with Figures

Prints and Drawings

1932

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893-1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Composition with Figures
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.: 1932–1983
Medium: Gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in black ink: "Miró / 5. 32."
Dimensions: 48.2 × 63.2 cm (19 × 24 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1944.33
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Normal, Ill., Illinois State University, May 4-June 4, 1947.
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, “Calder, Miró,” October 14-November 4, 1951.
Chicago, The Arts Club, “Miró,” February 22-March 25, 1961, cat. 15.

Sold by Theodore Schempp, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.

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