Joan Miró *
(Montroig 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca) Untitled, 1977, signed Miró, oil, monotype on Japan paper laid down on canvas, 48.5 x 58 cm, framed, (PP)
Photo certificate:
Jacques Dupin, ADOM, Paris, 10 May 2005;
Ariane Lelong Mainaud, ADOM, Paris, 22 March 2012
Provenance:
Private Collection, Europe
Exhibition:
Miró, Galleria Il Castello, Milan, March - April 2006, exh. cat., no. 21, page 50 with ill. page 51
Unlike his earlier drawings, Miró’s later works hardly deal with women, birds, and celestial bodies any longer, but focus on the artist’s gesture as such, the artist’s daily routine, thereby describing a life lived with pens and brushes, with forms and colours, and simultaneously with spectres and visitations, in which necessity and the coincidence of the moment are in balance.
Miró seeks to render his art as physical activity, as something happening in the magnetic field between hand, instrument, and material.
“The starting point is entirely irrational, brutal, and unconscious; I start out like an animal.“ Each of his works results from a hallucinatory state and is generated by a shock. In this, the artist lets himself primarily be influenced by his material, whether it is old scraps of paper or precious Japan paper, like in the present work.
Nevertheless, the simple forms, signs, and blurs created by his artistic gesture are never “abstract”, but always a symbol that stands for something. The meanings of these signs, however, are not openly and clearly revealed, but are evoked by their suggestive power and interpreted by the spectator.
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386
patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at
28.11.2012 - 18:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 146,700.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 120,000.- to EUR 160,000.-
Joan Miró *
(Montroig 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca) Untitled, 1977, signed Miró, oil, monotype on Japan paper laid down on canvas, 48.5 x 58 cm, framed, (PP)
Photo certificate:
Jacques Dupin, ADOM, Paris, 10 May 2005;
Ariane Lelong Mainaud, ADOM, Paris, 22 March 2012
Provenance:
Private Collection, Europe
Exhibition:
Miró, Galleria Il Castello, Milan, March - April 2006, exh. cat., no. 21, page 50 with ill. page 51
Unlike his earlier drawings, Miró’s later works hardly deal with women, birds, and celestial bodies any longer, but focus on the artist’s gesture as such, the artist’s daily routine, thereby describing a life lived with pens and brushes, with forms and colours, and simultaneously with spectres and visitations, in which necessity and the coincidence of the moment are in balance.
Miró seeks to render his art as physical activity, as something happening in the magnetic field between hand, instrument, and material.
“The starting point is entirely irrational, brutal, and unconscious; I start out like an animal.“ Each of his works results from a hallucinatory state and is generated by a shock. In this, the artist lets himself primarily be influenced by his material, whether it is old scraps of paper or precious Japan paper, like in the present work.
Nevertheless, the simple forms, signs, and blurs created by his artistic gesture are never “abstract”, but always a symbol that stands for something. The meanings of these signs, however, are not openly and clearly revealed, but are evoked by their suggestive power and interpreted by the spectator.
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386
patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Modern Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 28.11.2012 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 17.11. - 28.11.2012 |
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