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Boulakia

Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893-1983 Palma)
Des figures devant la lune, 1942
Pastel, gouache, wash, brush, ink, and pencil on paper
64.5 x 48.5 cm
Signed 'Joan Miró' (lower right)
Dated 'X Barcelone, 18-12-1942' and titled on reverse
Certificate of authenticity from ADOM dated 13 July 2018
Provenance: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; Galleria Narciso, Turin
Exhibitions: Traveling exhibition Japan, 1984, reproduced cat. n°17; Ferrara, Palais des Diamants, Joan Miró, 1985, n° 81; Cherasco, Palazzo Salmatoris, Chagall, Miró, Magritte : La Poesia del Sogno, September-December 2005; Paris, Exhibition Jean Louis Prat-Galerie Lelong, Grand Palais, September-October 2018; Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, Belgium, Exposition Joan Miro : L’essence des choses passées et présentes, October 2022-January 2023, repr. in cat.
Literature: Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miro : catalogue raisonné, Volume II,1931-1941, Editions Maeght-Lelong, Paris, 2000; Joan Miró exhibition catalogue, L'essence des choses passées et présentes, Editions BAM, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, Belgium, 2022