Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Joan Miró
La Grande amulette
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Joan Miró
1893 - 1983
La Grande amulette
signed Miró. and dated 3/1954. (lower left); dedicated pour jacques et andrée Pérez-y-Jorba avec toute la grande amitié de, (around the drawing)
crayon, pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
37.7 by 28.4 cm. 14⅞ by 11⅛ in.
Framed: 60 by 55 cm. 23⅝ by 21⅝ in.
Executed in March 1954.
Jacques and Andrée Pérez-y-Jorbe (acquired as a a gift from the artist in 1954)
Leger Galleries Inc., White Plains, New York
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 303
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above sale)
Christie's, London, 10 February 2005, lot 710
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, 1938-1959, vol. II, 2010, no. 1498, p. 316, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Miró, Œuvre 1937-1979, 2004, no. 5, p. 15, illustrated in colour (titled Young Boy (La Grand amulette))
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