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Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Lot 146PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Personnage, oiseaux

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Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Personnage, oiseaux
signed 'Miró' (lower right); dated and inscribed '11/IX/76 Personnage, oiseaux' (on the reverse)
gouache, pastel and brush and India ink on paper
24 7/8 x 17 1/8 in. (63.3 x 43.5 cm.)
Executed on 11 September 1976

Pilar Juncosa (the artist's wife), Mallorca; her sale, Sotheby's, Madrid, 9 December 1986, lot 13.
Helly Nahmad Gallery, London.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above.

Note du spécialiste


'In my painting, a little line with a big shape at the end, that's unexpected. I'm the first to be surprised by it' (Miró, quoted in Y. Taillandier, 'Miró: I Work Like a Gardener', pp. 423-28, Joan Miró: 1893-1983, exh. cat., Barcelona, 1993, p. 426).