
Art Institute of Chicago
The Two Philosophers
Joan Miró · February 4–12, 1936
Provenance
Ownership history
- Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1936–60. Sold to Leigh B. Block, January 1960. Gift to Art Institute, 1960.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró, November 30–December 26, 1936, no. 22.
- New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró: “Peintures Sauvages” 1934 to 1953, November 4–29, 1958, no. 5 (ill.).
- Arts Council of Great Britain, Joan Miró, p. 36; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, Joan Miró, August 27-October 11, 1964; Zürich, Kunsthaus, October 31–December 6, 1964.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, October 13, 1993–January 18, 1994, no. 135, pp. 212 (ill.), 409 (ill.).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937, November 1, 2008–January 12, 2009 (plate 94).
Literature
Published references
- A. E. Gallatin, Museum of the Living Art: A. E. Gallatin Collection 1937 (New York: George Grady Press, 1936) (ill.), n.p.
- Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, translated by Norbert Guterman (New York, 1962), p. 285, no. 427, p. 533 (ill.).
- Penrose, 1969, p. 80, pl. 54, p. 81 (ill.).
- James N. Wood, Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpure (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996) p. 71 (ill.).
- Jacques Dupin, Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings (Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1999).
- Jim Coddington and Robert S. Lubar, “The Language of Materials,” and “Small Paintings on Masonite and Copper,” Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. Exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008), p. 20, ill. 183, p. 184, ill. 193, pl. 94.
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