Joan Miró
Page Proof from the book “Proof Against All”
1957
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Joan Miró
Page Proof from the book “Proof Against All”
1957
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 324 × 505 mm. (12 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Marguerite Matisse Duthuit Collection
Object Number
2015.341
Page proof before letterpress text; pages unnumbered but sheet corresponds to spread on pp. 80-81. Colophon mentions special edition of book (numbered 1-6 and 7-26) which includes "une suite des illustrations sur papier de Chine" and/or "une suite sur papier nacré du Japon" though this impression might have been pulled with a group of impressions for the artist to give to friends and clients.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Barbara Duthuit, New York; by inheritance from Marguerite Matisse Duthuit; the artist
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Inscribed: Recto: at upper left in graphite: "Pour / Marguerite Duthuit, / avec la vieille amitié de / Miró" Verso: none
