
Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Joaneta Obrador
Joan Miró · 1918
Provenance
Ownership history
- Aimé Maeght (Galerie Maeght), Paris, acquired directly from the artist by March 1956 [letter April 12, 2003 from Kunsthalle Basel and letter July 15, 2003 from Association pour la défense de l’oeuvre de Joan Miró, in curatorial file]; sold to an unnamed Paris dealer [letter October 26, 1976 from Pierre Matisse Gallery, in curatorial file]; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by 1957 [letter October 26, 1976 mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute through Joseph Winterbotham Collection funds, 1957.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Joan Miró, January–February 1956, no. 5, n.p. (ill.); traveled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, February–March 1956, as Portrait á la tapisserie.
- Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Joan Miró March 24–April 29, 1956, no. 5, as Portrait á la tapisserie.
- Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Miró, July 16–September 30, 1968, no. 5.
- New York, Acquavella Galleries, Joan Miró, October 18–November 18, 1972, no. 5.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Joan Miró, May 17–October 13, 1974, no. 4.
- Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Miró: Selected Paintings , March 20–June 8, 1980; traveled to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, June 27–August 17, 1980.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Joan Miró, November 21, 1986-February 1, 1987; traveled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, February 14-April 20, 1987 and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 15-August 23, 1987.
- Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miró: 1893–1993, April 20–August 30, 1993, no. 31.
Literature
Published references
- Joseph Fontales Ráfols, "Miró antes de ‘La Masia’" Anales y boletín de los museos de arte de Barcelona, vol. 6, no. 3–4 (July-December 1948): 497–502, ill. n.p.
- Jacques Revert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró (Paris, 1956), ill. opp. p. 109.
- "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly XX (Autumn 1957), p. 326 (ill.), fig. 3.
- Eduard Hüttinger, Miró (Bern, 1957), pp. 10–11, fig. 5.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), pp. 314, 430 (ill.).
- Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, trans. By Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), pp. 80, 81, 505, fig. 53.
- Jacques Lassaigne, Miró, trans. Stuart Gilbert (Geneva, 1963), pp. 21, 23 (ill.).
- Yves Bonnefoy, Miró (Milan, 1964), p. 8, fig. 5.
- A. James Speyer, "Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,"Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 225.
- Mario Bucci, Joan Miró: I Meastri del Novecento (Florence and Paris, 1968), pp. 16–17, fig. 9.
- Juan Perucho, Joan Miró and Catalonia (New York, 1968), p. 50, fig. 26.
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 271 (ill.).
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