Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman by Joan Miró
Art Institute of Chicago

Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman

Joan Miró · 1941

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1944 [according to notes from Pierre Matisse]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, "Joan Miro," January 9–February 3, 1945, cat. 19.
  • New York, Aquavella Gallery, "Joan Miro," October 18–November 18, 1972, cat. 43 (ill.).
  • Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, "Joan Miró," November 21, 1986-February 1, 1987, cat. 106; traveled to Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle, February 13-April 20, 1987, and New York, Solomon R. Guggeneheim Museum, May 15-August 23, 1987.
  • Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, "Joan Miró," November 24, 1988-January 15, 1989; traveled to London, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, February 3-April 23, 1989.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Joan Miró," October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, cat. 175.
  • Basel, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler, "Calder and Miró," May-August 2004; traveled to Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, October 9, 2004-January 23, 2005.
  • New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., "Miró: The Constellations", April 20 - May 26, 2017.

Literature

Published references

  • Pictures on Exhibit, 5 (January 1945), pp. 14, 16, and 25 (ill.).
  • Columbus Museum of Art, The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield, 1915-1921 (Columbus, Ohio, 1987), p. 122 (ill.).
  • Pierre Sterckx, "Constellations chaotiques," BeauxArts Magazine, 10 (2004), p. 72.

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