Woman and Birds in Front of the Sun

Prints and Drawings

1942

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893-1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Woman and Birds in Front of the Sun
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.: 1942
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink, watercolor and gouache, with wiping and scraping, and touches of pastel, on cream wove paper, laid down
Inscriptions: Signed right center, in black ink: “Miró”
Dimensions: 110.3 × 79.3 cm (43 7/16 × 31 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1948.453
Copyright: © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Clement Greenberg, Joan Miró (New York, 1948), pl. 66 (ill.).
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 315.
Gernhard Borchert, Joan Miró (London, 1961), p. 8 (ill.).
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work (New York, 1962), p. 347 (ill.)
El Mundo de los Museos, The Art Institute of Chicago, Editorial Codex (Madrid, 1967), p. 79 (ill.).

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, “Joan Miró,” May 13-July 6, 1947.
Dallas. Tex., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, “The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings,” October 8-November 6, 1949.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Joan Miró,” March 18-May 10, 1959, cat. 80; traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 10-July 21, 1959, cat. 82.
Chicago, The Arts Club, “Wit and Humor,” February 28-March 31, 1962, cat. 14.
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, “Joan Miró,” 1964, cat. 176; Tate Gallery, August 27-October 11, 1964; and the Kunsthaus, Zurich, October 31-December 6, 1964.
St. Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, “Miró: Development of a Sign Language,” March 19-April 27, 1980; traveled to the Smart Museum, University of Chicago, May 16-June 18, 1980.
Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, “Miró in America,” April 21-June 27, 1982.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display,” January 30-April 30, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

The artist to the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York [according to notes from Pierre Matisse]; sold to the Art Institute, 1948.

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