Joan Miró, Une Femme (A Woman), 1958 |
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Artist: | Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) |
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Title: | Une Femme (A Woman), 1958 |
Reference: | Maeght 1712 |
Medium: | Color Lithograph on Arches Paper |
Image Size: | 18 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in (46.4 cm x 37.5 cm) |
Sheet Size: | 25 1/2 in x 18 3/4 in (64.77 cm x 47.63 cm) |
Framed Size: | 26 in x 21 3/4 in (66 cm x 55.2 cm) |
Edition: | Numbered from the edition of 300 in pencil in the lower left. |
Signature: | This work is hand signed by Joan Miro (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right. |
Condition: | This work itself is in excellent condition. The gold frame has some minor staining not affecting the image. Frame comes as is. |
ID # | w-8077 |
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Joan Miró Une Femme (A Woman), 1958 studies the shape of a woman’s body through dream-like representation of fantastically strange anatomical parts. Unconcerned with symmetry, the body dominates the rectangular pictorial space, showing off all angles of its fascinating proportions. The beautiful arabesque lines lead the viewer’s eye around the woman’s small curved face and flowing hair, to her waving arms, to her monumental legs. The rich earthy color of her body glows against the cool green background. The window above her echoes the parallel lines of the floor at her feet, and the vivid blue sliver in the window repeats in the diagonal blue forms dissecting the woman’s body. The abstract shapes and lines of the woman and the space around her come together beautifully to create Miró’s surreal realm.
Created in 1958, this color lithograph is hand-signed by Joan Miro (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma, 1983) in the lower right and numbered from an edition of 300 in the lower left. This color lithograph was created after the original oil on wood of the same title from 1932.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Joan Miró A Woman (Une Femme), 1958 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work)
1. Dupin, Jacques. Joan Miró: Life and Work. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1971. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 320 on p. 526
2. Dupin, Jacques. Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Painting. Paris: Daniel Lelong, 2000. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 403
3. Maeght Éditeur Eaux-Fortes et Lithographies Originales 1958. Paris: Maeght, 1968. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 1712
4. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.
About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Joan Miró A Woman (Une Femme), 1958 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.