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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.91
People
Joan Miró, Spanish (Barcelona, Spain 1893 - 1983 Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
Title
Painting
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Lasso
Alternate Title: Circus Horse
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1927
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213925

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
129.54 x 96.52 cm (51 x 38 in.)
frame: 137.5 × 105.1 × 5.7 cm (54 1/8 × 41 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Miro, Signed Date: 1927

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rene Gaffé, Brussels, (? - 1938?), sold ; Roland Penrose, London. [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis Missouri, 1947, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.91
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Johnson Sweeney, Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1941), p. 36, reproduced p. 44
  • Herbert Read, The Spanish Masters of Twentieth Century Painting, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA, 1948), p. 92, reproduced p. 100
  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 59-60, fig. 14b, ill. (plate section, b/w)
  • Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1963), no. 202, p. 517; reproduced in b/w p. 221
  • William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1968), p. 163, plate 137; text, p. 160
  • Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language, exh. cat., Washington University Gallery of Art (St. Louis, MO, 1980), text p. 25; listed p. 66, reproduced fig. 16
  • Glenn Ligon, Blue Black, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2017), p. 37, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Joan Miró, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 05/06/1937 - 06/02/1937
  • Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1941 - 11/30/1941
  • Joan Miró, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 03/11/1947 - 04/05/1947
  • The Spanish Masters of Twentieth Century Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 09/14/1948 - 10/17/1948; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 10/26/1948 - 11/28/1948
  • Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957
  • Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 03/19/1980 - 04/27/1980
  • Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/13/1993 - 01/18/1994
  • Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 06/09/2017 - 10/07/2017

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