Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 119
Joan Miró
"I always feel the need to achieve
the maximum of intensity with the
minimum of means. This is what
has led me to give my painting
an ever sparer character."
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893 - 1983
Per a Qué els Ocells Cantin, 19 August 1976
Gouache on paper
25 x 19 inches / 65.8 x 49.9 cm
Signed lower left: Miró
Signed again, titled and inscribed on the reverse: Joan A Catalina Cristina
Garau Obrador, Per a Qué els ocells Cantin 19 V III 76
Painted in gouache on textured
Japanese paper, the present work
is a late and particularly expressive
example of Miró’s poetic and
symbolist approach to the human
form. It epitomises the artist’s love
of flat colour and line, with patches
of unmixed paint locked together by
black forms to produce an arresting
and idiosyncratic design.
Per a Qué els Ocells Cantin was
given as a gift to the previous owners
of the painting on the occasion of
their daughter’s birth.
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Provenance
A gift from the artist to the previous owner in 1976
This painting is accompanied by a certificate of
authentication kindly issued by Jacques Dupin
and is to be included in the forthcoming
Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Drawings,
currently in preparation by Jacques Dupin &
Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, ADOM