Joan Miró *
(Montroig 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)
Untitled, signed; dedicated, signed and dated on the reverse Para Del Arco, en recuerdo de Esta es su Vida afectuosamente Miró. mayo, 1.964, watercolour, India ink and wax crayon on paper, 25 x 33 cm, framed
Provenance:
Manuel del Arco, Barcelona
Barrington Gallery, London
European Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1998)
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 May 2017, lot 31
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above)
Literature:
Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Miró. Drawings VI,
1978–1981 (Addenda), Paris, 2018, p. 360, no. A77, with ill.
Note:
Ésta es su vida was a popular Spanish television program broadcast between 1962 and 1968, celebrating the lives of prominent figures through interviews and personal recollections. Manuel del Arco (1909–1971), a Spanish journalist, interviewer and caricaturist, contributed to the program’s scripts and was known for his interviews with leading figures in art and culture. Miró also appeared in connection with Ésta es su vida in 1964, the year he dedicated this work to Del Arco.
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
Joan Miró
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
(Montroig 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)
Untitled, signed; dedicated, signed and dated on the reverse Para Del Arco, en recuerdo de Esta es su Vida afectuosamente Miró. mayo, 1.964, watercolour, India ink and wax crayon on paper, 25 x 33 cm, framed
Provenance:
Manuel del Arco, Barcelona
Barrington Gallery, London
European Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1998)
Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 May 2017, lot 31
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above)
Literature:
Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Miró. Drawings VI,
1978–1981 (Addenda), Paris, 2018, p. 360, no. A77, with ill.
Note:
Ésta es su vida was a popular Spanish television program broadcast between 1962 and 1968, celebrating the lives of prominent figures through interviews and personal recollections. Manuel del Arco (1909–1971), a Spanish journalist, interviewer and caricaturist, contributed to the program’s scripts and was known for his interviews with leading figures in art and culture. Miró also appeared in connection with Ésta es su vida in 1964, the year he dedicated this work to Del Arco.
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
Joan Miró
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
