
Art Institute of Chicago
Painting
Joan Miró · summer 1936
Provenance
Ownership history
- Gallerie Pierre, New York, 1936 [Duthuit 1936]. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, Chicago, by 1950. Gift to Art Institute, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florence May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, November 1, 1965–January 2, 1966, p. 49; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, February 11–March 27, 1966; St. Louis, City Art Museum, April 26–June 13, 1966; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, July 2–August 7, 1966; San Francisco, Museum of Art, September 2–October 2, 1966.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, October 17, 1993–January 11, 1994, no. 142, pp. 217 (ill.), 411 (ill.).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937, November 1, 2008–January 12, 2009 (plate 107).
Literature
Published references
- Georges Duthuit, “Où allez-vous Miró?” Cahiers d’Art, XI, No. 8–10 (1936), p. 266 (ill.).
- Clement Greenberg, Joan Miró (New York, 1948) p. 76 (ill.), pl. XXXVI.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p.
- Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, translated by Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), no. 459, p. 533 (ill.).
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 56, no. 2G10.
- Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, Vol. 2, 1931–1941 (Paris: Daniel Lelong & Successio Miró, 2000), 173, cat. 551 (color ill.), as Peinture/Painting.
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