Painting (Figures with Stars)

1. The artist; commissioned by Marie Cuttoli, Paris, 1933 [commissioned as a tapestry design to be executed by a workshop in Aubusson, France for sale in her Paris gallery; New York 1993, London 2007]; returned to the artist for re-touching, by Dec. 14, 1951 [letter from Aimé Maeght to Pierre Matisse, Dec. 14, 1951, Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, The Morgan Library & Museum; letter from Pierre Matisse to Courtney Donnell, Oct. 26, 1976; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by Mar. 1952 [Aimé Maeght facilitated this sale, according to letter from Aimé Maeght to Pierre Matisse, Feb. 15, 1952, Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives, The Morgan Library & Museum; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, Chicago, by Oct. 27, 1952 [“Culberg’s Contemporaries,” 1952]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Possibly New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró, Apr. 15-May 17, 1952, cat. 1, as Painting.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, Oct. 17, 1993-Jan. 11, 1994, cat. 112.
• Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Revolution Surrealiste, Feb. 27– June 24, 2002, no cat. no.; traveled to: Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfahlen, July 20–Nov. 24, 2002, as Personnages avec étoiles.
• South Kensington, Victoria and Albert Museum, Surreal Things: Design and Decorative Arts, Mar. 29, 2007—July 22, 2007; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Oct. 2007 1—Jan. 1, 2008.
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.
• Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation, Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray, Feb. 23, 2020–May 10, 2020.

• William S. Lieberman, “Modern French Tapestries,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5 (Jan. 1948), pp. 142-43.
• Possibly Joan Miró, exh. cat. (New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1952), cat. 1.
• Possibly Howard Devree, “Extending Horizons: Kirchner and Expressionism—Joan Miró—Cézanne Exhibition a Great Success,” New York Times (April 20, 1952), p. X9.
• Possibly James Fitzsimmons, “All Sorts of Wonderful Events,” Art Digest 26, 15 (May 1, 1952), p. 16.
• Possibly Charles Z. Offin, “Gallery Previews in New York,” Pictures on Exhibit 14, 7 (May 1952), p. 15 (ill.).
• Il Messaggero di Roma (July 22, 1952), ill.
• Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 46, 4 (November 15, 1952), p. 68 (ill.).
• “Culberg’s Contemporaries,” Life (October 27, 1952), p. 481 (color ill.).
• Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 314.
• Jacques Dupin, Miró, trans. Norbert Guterman (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1962), pp. 255-56, 529 (ill. 367).
• A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84, 55 (September 1966), p. 225.
• Instituto de arte de Chicago: Presentación de Charles C. Cunningham (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, S.A., 1967), pp. 15, no. 73 (ill.), 79 (color ill.).

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