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Provenance: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (no. 1890).
A.F.A. Graphics, Washington, D.C., by 1950.
Alan Hofstatter, United States.
Galerie Berggruen, Paris.
Pietro Campilli, Rome.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Exhibited: San Francisco, Museum of Art, New Directions in Modern Painting, 1950.
Dusseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Joan Miró: Schnecke Frau Blume Stern, July - October 2002.
Aichi, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Gaudi - Miró - Dalí, July - September 2005.
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Miró: La Terra, February - May 2008, p. 157 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, June - September 2008.

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Literature: J. Dupin, Miró, Paris, 1961, no. 682, p. 536.
J. Dupin, Miró: Life and Work, London, 1962, no. 82, p. 552 (illustrated).
M. Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, 1970, no. 63.
J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Paintings, vol. III, 1942-1955, Paris, 2001, no. 781, p. 97 (illustrated).
El cultural, 19-25 June 2008, p. 32.

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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Personnages et oiseaux devant le soleil
signed, dated and titled 'Miró. 11-3-1946 "Personnages et oiseaux devant le soleil"' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36¼ x 29 in. (92.7 x 73.8 cm.)
Painted in 1946