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Joan Miró

Portrait No. 1

1937

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Joan Miró

Portrait No. 1

1937

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 × 51 1/4 in. (163.2 × 130.2 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.339
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase 1938; from Galerie Pierre, Paris
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1941.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture," March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 82.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, cat. no. 68, 1959; Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum, cat no. 68.

The Tate Gallery, London ;Kunsthaus, Zurich, cat. no. 156.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, cat. 151, 1993.

Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948," February 28-December 2, 2001.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 82, p. 20.
Roland Penrose, "Miro," London: Thames and Hudson, 1970, no. 63, p.90.
Jacques Dupin, "Miro," Paris: Flammarion, 1993, no.248, p. 227.
Jacques Dupin, "Joan Miró: catalogue raisonné: paintings," vol. 2, Paris: Daniel Lelong, Successió Miró,1999, no. 584, p.200.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 130.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
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.

Artist

Joan Miró

1892–1982

born Barcelona, Spain 1893; died Palma, Spain 1983
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