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Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893 - 1983
Personnage, 1967
Painted bronze (lost wax casting) Fonderie T. Clementi, Meudon, Paris
62 x 32¼ x 11¾ inches / 159.1 x 81.9 x 29.8 cm
Inscribed and numbered: Miró, N1
Stamped with the foundry mark
This work is number 1 from an edition of 4, plus 1 AP and 1 nominative cast
Miró created most of his sculpture
after his seventieth birthday out of
a wish to challenge the boundaries
of painting, making the present
example one of his first essays in
three dimensions. His late sculptural
works fall into two recognised
groups: those cast from forms
modelled by the artist and, as in this
case, those cast from found objects.
Miró’s juxtaposition of incongruent
shapes in Personnage offers a
prime example of his desire to
evoke surprise, and to stimulate
associations, in the mind of
the viewer. The sculpture also
exemplifies Miró’s fascination with
richly imaginative imagery, which
reflected his belief that ‘an object is
something living.’
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Exhibited
Another cast:
Barcelona, Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Miró, November 1968January 1969, no. 181, p. 72
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Joan Miró: Das Plastiche Werk, June-July 1972,
no. 25, p. 48, illustrated
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Sculptures de Miró, ceramiques de Miró et
Llorens Artigas, April-June 1973, no. 58, p. 135
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, no. 180, p. 128
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Joan Miró: Peintures, sculptures, dessins,
ceramiques, 1956-1979, July-September 1979, no. 199, p. 183, illustrated in
colour, p. 92
Milan, Palazzo Dugnani, p. 248, illustrated in colour, p. 92
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Hommage à Jean Miró, March-May 1984,
no. 136, p. 35
Montreal, The Museum of Fine Arts, Miró in Montreal, June-October 1986,
no. 40, illustrated in colour, p. 106 and 247
Madrid, Centro Reina Sofia, Miró escultor, October 1986–January 1987,
no. 35, illustrated in colour, p. 84; this exhibition later travelled to:
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, January-March 1987
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Miró: Der Bildhauer, April-June 1987, no. 35,
illustrated in colour, p. 96
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Joan Miró Skulpturen,
April-June 1990, no. 39, illustrated in colour
Malmo, Malmo Konsthall, Joan Miró: Skulpturer, November 1993February 1994, p. 86, illustrated in colour, p. 87
Hamburg, Deichtothallen, illustrated in colour, p. 87
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museeum, no. 60, p. 218, illustrated in
colour, p. 106
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Joan Miró: Metamorphoses des formes,
April-June 2001, no. 64, p. 224, illustrated in colour, p. 158
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Shape of Colour: Joan
Miró's Painted Sculpture, September 2002- January 2003, no. 9, illustrated
in colour, p. 119; this exhibition later travelled to St. Petersburg, Florida,
Salvador Dali Museum, February-May 2003; Portland, Portland Art Museum,
June-September 2003
Literature
J.J. Sweeney, Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1970, p. 223, illustrated in colour p. 227
A. Jouffroy, J. Texidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, no. 111, p. 89
Fundació Joan Miró, Obra de Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1988, no. 1484, p. 402
J. Brihuega, Miró y Dalí: los grandes surrealistas, Madrid, 1993, no. 2,
illustrated in colour p. 47
P. Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, Barcelona, 1993, no. 1194, p. 402
Emilio Fernández Miró and P. O. Chapel, Joan Miró Sculptures Catalogue
Raisonné, 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 99, another cast illustrated in colour
p.110
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