Joan Miró
Figures and Birds in a Landscape
1934
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Joan Miró
Figures and Birds in a Landscape
1934
Physical Qualities
Tempera on Masonite, 10 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (27.6 x 49.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.340
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1938-1951; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1938; from Galerie Pierre, Paris.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 83.
Denver Art Museum, "Ten by Ten," January-February 1954.
"Selections from the May Collection," Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 27-October 31, 1957.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, November 9-December 4, 1967.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture," July 9- September 23, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art,"Saidie A. May Collection," September 5-October 15, 1972, p. 77, ill. .
Carolyn Lanchner, "Joan Miró," Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, no. 132, p. 408, ill. p. 211.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937," Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 2, 2008-January 12, 2009; plate 91, p. 236, ill. p. 190.
Denver Art Museum, "Ten by Ten," January-February 1954.
"Selections from the May Collection," Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 27-October 31, 1957.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, November 9-December 4, 1967.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture," July 9- September 23, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art,"Saidie A. May Collection," September 5-October 15, 1972, p. 77, ill. .
Carolyn Lanchner, "Joan Miró," Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, no. 132, p. 408, ill. p. 211.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937," Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 2, 2008-January 12, 2009; plate 91, p. 236, ill. p. 190.
Gallatin 1936, ill. n.p. (photograph of Miró in his studio) [cited in MOMA exhibition catalogue, p. 408]
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 83, p. 20.
Jacques Dupin, "Joan Miró: Life and Work," London: Thames and Hudson, 1962, no. 419, pp. 285-286; ill. p. 533.
Jacques Dupin, "Joan Miró: catalogue raisonné: paintings," vol. 2, Paris: Daniel Lelong, Successió Miró,1999, no. 505.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937," Museum of Modern Art: New York, 2008, plate 91, ill. p. 190.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: FACE: in center of sky, "Miro"; VERSO: "Joan Miro. / Figures et oiseaux dans un paysage / 23/10-8/11/35."
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