Joan Miró Personnages, oiseau, gouttes d'eau

Property from an Important Private Collection, New York
Joan Miró
1893 - 1983

Personnages, oiseau, gouttes d'eau
signed Miró (lower right); signed Joan Miró, titled Personnages, gouttes d'eau, oiseau, dated Montroig 9/9/1942 and numbered 7 (on the verso)
pastel and pen and ink on paper
4 ¾ by 40 ½ in.
12 by 103 cm.
Executed in Mont-roig on 9 September 1942.

Condition Report:
Executed on cream wove paper and hinged to the mount along the perimeter of the verso. The upper edge of the sheet is slightly unevenly cut. Artist's pinholes in all four corners and at the upper and lower center edges of the sheet. The sheet is lightly toned. The sheet undulates slightly due to the application of media. Scattered areas of water staining throughout the composition. A few pindots of foxing. One ½-inch repaired tear in the left-most water droplet near the center of the composition. Adhesive residue at the center of the verso. This work is in overall good condition.

Provenance:
Galerie Maeght, Paris

Carl Djerassi, United States

Saidenberg Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner