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Joan Miró, Pierre Matisse, New York, Pierre Loeb, Roger Lacourière

The Giantess

1937

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Joan Miró, Pierre Matisse, New York, Pierre Loeb, Roger Lacourière

The Giantess

1937

Physical Qualities Etching and drypoint, Sheet: 442 × 324 mm. (17 3/8 × 12 3/4 in.) Plate: 347 × 235 mm. (13 11/16 × 9 1/4 in.) Framed: 23 1/4 × 17 1/4 × 2 in. (59.1 × 43.8 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1995.64
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
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: lower left in graphite: "4/30"; lower right in graphite: "Miró; lower right verso stamped: "Made in France"; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: "L40.56 / Abstraction (May Collection)""

Artist

Joan Miró

born Barcelona, Spain 1893; died Palma, Spain 1983
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Publisher

Pierre Matisse, New York

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Publisher

Pierre Loeb

Paris
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Printer

Roger Lacourière

French, 1892-1966
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