About this artwork
The Spanish artist Joan Miró was one of the leading exponents of Surrealism. His drawing The Kerosene Lamp has often been interpreted as autobiographical—a view of the artist’s studio—but the elements of his work are intended to be suggestive rather than specific in meaning.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Joan Miró
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Title
- The Kerosene Lamp
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Place
- Spain (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1924
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Medium
- Charcoal, with red Conté and colored crayons, touches of graphite, and scraping, heightened with white oil paint, on canvas prepared with a glue ground
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed lower center, in blue gouache over black pencil: "Miró/ 1924"; verso, upper left, in brush and black ink: “La lampe a Pétrole / 1924”
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Dimensions
- 81 × 100.3 cm (31 15/16 × 39 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, Helen L. Kellogg Trust, Blum-Kovler Foundation, Major Acquisitions and gifts from Mrs. Henry C. Woods, Members of the Committee on Prints and Drawings, and Friends of the Department
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Reference Number
- 1978.312
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Copyright
- © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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