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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Joan Miró

Projet pour un monument

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November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983


Projet pour un monument

inscribed Miró, numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Bonvicini, V.R. Italia

painted bronze

height: 19 ⅝ in. 50 cm.

Conceived in 1972 and cast in an edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proofs; this example cast in 1985.

Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris

Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne

Private Collection, California

Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1992, lot 300 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Lonny Gans & Associates, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1992 by the present owner

Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1973, no. 226, p. 158, illustration of the plaster; p. 206

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais, Joan Miró, 1974, no. 270, p. 159

Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris, 1980, no. 300, p. 202, illustration in color of the resin; p. 247

Exh. Cat., Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Miró sculptures, 1985, no. 12, front and back covers, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 24 (dated 1979/85)

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Centro Reina Sofia; Barcelona, Fundacio Joan Miró and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Miró, escultor, 1986-87, no. 66, pp. 110 and 144-45, illustrations in color of the plaster (dated 1972) (Madrid and Barcelona)

Jacques Dupin, Miró Firebird, Paris, 1998, p. 115, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture, 2002, no. 19c, p. 138, illustration in color of another cast (dated 1979-85); no. 19b, p. 139, illustration in color of the plaster (dated 1972-79)

Emilio Fernández Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró: Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné 1928-1982, Paris, 2006, no. 271, p. 260, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Miró: Sculptor, 2012-13, p. 102, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Ordovas, Chillida on Miró, 2014, no. 44-45, n.p. and p. 76, illustration in color of another cast