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
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
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, "Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture", March 1950, cat. 85.
James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Joan Miro", March 9-May 3, 1959; circulated Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, June 6-July 18, 1959, p. 106, cat. 85, ill. p. 108.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 22-October 1972, cat. p. 80, ill.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912 - 1948", February 28-December 2, 2001.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collections of Claribel and Etta Cone and Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler", February 8-April 21, 2002. cat. 33, p.19.
James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Joan Miro", March 9-May 3, 1959; circulated Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, June 6-July 18, 1959, p. 106, cat. 85, ill. p. 108.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 22-October 1972, cat. p. 80, ill.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912 - 1948", February 28-December 2, 2001.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collections of Claribel and Etta Cone and Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler", February 8-April 21, 2002. cat. 33, p.19.
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.
Inscribed: BACK: "Miró 1944"
