Painting (The Circus Horse)

1. Paul Éluard (died 1952), Paris, by June 1938 [inventory of Éluard collection reproduced in Penrose 1981, fig. 420]; sold to Roland Penrose (died 1984), London, June 1938–1965 [Penrose 1981, fig. 420 and letter from Antony W. R. Penrose, January 3, 2004, in curatorial file]; given to his son, Antony W. R. Penrose, Sussex, England, by 1965–1975 [letter cited above]. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Joan Miró, January–February 1956; traveled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, February–March 1956, n.p., cat. no. 30 (ill.), as Le cheval and Het paard.
• London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Joan Miró, Aug. 27–Oct. 11, 1964, cat. 68; Zurich, Kunsthaus, Oct. 31–Dec. 6, 1964.
• Madrid, Galeria Kreisler Dos, January–February 1979, as Caballo de circo. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Miró in America, April 21–June 27, 1982.
• Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism, September 19, 1997–January 4, 1998, p. 82.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale, Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 5–Aug. 24, 2003, cat. 20, as Circus Horse, 1927.

• Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, trans. by Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), p. 517, no. 205 (ill.).
• Roland Penrose, ed., Joan Miró, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1964), 27, cat. 68 (not ill.).
• Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, vol. 1 (Paris, 1999), p. 178, no. 232 (ill.).
• Roland Penrose, Roland Penrose: Scrapbook 1900–1981 (Painters and Sculptors) (London, 1981), p. 168, fig. 420.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p., cat. 20, as Circus Horse, 1927 (ill.)

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