Art Institute of Chicago

The Kerosene Lamp

Joan Miró · 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

Possibly Paul Eluard, Paris [New York 1993]. Mme Marie Cuttoli (died 1973), Paris, by March 1945-at least 1962 [New York 1993; Dupin 1962]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 4, 1962, lot 246 to Richard Feigen and Company, New York [sale catalogue addenda]. Sold by Ellen J. Myers, New York, to the Art Institute, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Pierre, "Exposition Joan Miró," June 12-27, 1925, cat. 5.
Paris, Galerie Vendôme, "Exposition Joan Miró," March 27-April 28, 1945, cat. 9.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, "Cent Chefs-d’oeuvre des peintres de l’ecole de Paris," May 24-July, 1946, cat. 136.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, "Joan Miró," January 6-February 7, 1956, cat. 12; also traveled to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February-March 1956.
Kunsthalle Basel, "Joan Miró," March 24-April 29, 1956, cat. 8.
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, "Collection d’un amateur parisien," July 15-September 28, 1958, cat. 27.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 208-209, cat. 98 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled," June 8, 1991-February 28, 1992.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Joan Miró," October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, cat. 33.

Literature

L’Ami des Arts, 3 (June 30, 1928), p. 17 (ill.).
Maurice Croizard, "Miró," Libertés, 76 (May 11, 1945), p. 4.
Paul Caso, "Rétrospective Miró," Le Soir (January 8, 1956), p. 5.
Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work (New York, 1961), pp. 144 and 508, no. 88 (ill.).
Sotheby’s Annual Review 218th Season (October 1961-August 1962), p. 74 (ill.).
The Burlington Magazine, 104 (June 1962), p. 34 (ill.).
Louis Aragon, "Barcelone à l’aube," Les Lettres Françaises (June 11, 1969), pp. 1-2 (ill.).
Joan Miró, "Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves," Entretiens avec Georges Raillard (Paris, 1977), p. 204.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Art Institute: A Century of Greatness. A Special Issue on Its History, Treasures, and Future," The Chicago Tribune (April 4, 1979), section 9, p. 25 (ill.).
E.A. Carmean, et al., The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 38.
Jean-Charles Gateau, Paul Eluard et la peinture surréaliste, 1910-1939 (Geneva, 1982), pp. 140-1.
Joan Miró: Anys Vint - Mutació de la realitat (Barcelona, 1983), p. 40 (ill.).

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