Joan Miró

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

Lydia Winston Malbin, Birmingham, Michigan (acquired from the above on 1 July 1948) 

Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1990, lot 68 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Perls Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1996, lot 298 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró, 1948, no. 10 

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, 20th Century Paintings from Private Collections, 1948, no. 14 (titled Birds in Flight and dated 1921) 

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Winston Collection, 1951, no. 34, illustrated 

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, 1955, no. 46, p. 14, illustrated

Detroit Institute of Arts; Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Art; The San Francisco Museum of Art and The Milwaukee Art Institute, Collecting Modern Art: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, 1957-58, no. 74, p. 65, illustrated (dated 1930)

Detroit Institute of Arts, Selections from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collections (Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin), 1972-73 (dated 1930)

Detroit Institute of Arts, Cobra and Contrasts: The Lydia Harry Lewis Winston Collection (Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin), 1974, no. 127, p. 162

Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró, Life and Work, New York, 1961, no. 531, p. 525, illustrated (titled Personages and Birds in front of the Sun)

Gene Baro, “A Lifelong Education of the Senses,” Living with Art, New York, 1988, p. 138, illustrated  

Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró Catalogue raisonné: Paintings, vol. II, Paris, 2000, no. 621, p. 225, illustrated in color