Joan Miró
Women and Bird in Front of the Moon
1943
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Joan Miró
Women and Bird in Front of the Moon
1943
Physical Qualities
Oil on burlap, 8 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.9 x 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.342
Publication References
Clement Greenberg, Miro, New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948, p. 114, pl. LXXI.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 85, p. 20.
The Sunday Sun, Baltimore, March2, 1958, magazine section (brown), "Object of the Week," ill.
Jacques Dupin, "Miro," London: Thames and Hudson, 1962, cat. no. 593, ill. p. 545.
Roland Penrose, "Miro," London: Thames and Hudson, 1970, p. 189, pl. 133.
Takahiko Okada, "Miro," Tokyo: Shincko Art Library no. 48, 1974.
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.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art , on extended loan, 1950-1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1948; from Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Inscribed: BACK: "Miró 1944"