Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 115
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893 - 1983
Deux Femmes dans la Nuit, 1970
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
14 x 13 inches / 35.5 x 33 cm
Signed lower right: Miró
Miró was first introduced to the work Provenance
of the Abstract Expressionists working Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
in America during a trip to New York Private Collection, US
in 1947. The work of ‘action painter’
Jackson Pollock made a particular
impression on Miró, whose intuitive
This painting is accompanied by a certificate of
techniques were not dissimilar to
authentication kindly issued by Jacques Dupin
and is to be included in the forthcoming
the experimental manner in which
Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Drawings,
Pollock spread paint over canvas.
currently in preparation by Jacques Dupin &
The present work uncovers Miró’s
Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, ADOM
debt to the American artist, a liberal
application of splatters and drips
jostling for attention with his more
typical symbolist calligraphy.
"Poetry and painting are done in the
same way you make love; it's an
exchange of blood, a total embrace without caution, without any thought
of protecting yourself."
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