Bird, couple of figures, star

Author

Joan Miró

Title

Oiseau, couple de personnages, étoile

Bird, couple of figures, star

Date

28 August 1942

Medium

Pencil and watercolour on paper

Sizes

33,5 x 26 cm

Signature

[c.r.] Miró

Credit line

Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona. On loan from a private collection

Provenance

Private collecion

Register Number

D 2031

Inscriptions

Back:

Joan Miró / Oiseau, couple de personnages, / étoile / x / montroig, 28-8-1942.

Bibliography

• Miró-Picasso / direcció del projecte: Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon ; comissariat: Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas: Miró-Picasso / [dirección del proyecto, Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon] ; [comisariado, Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas] = Miró-Picasso / [project direction, Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon] ; [curatorship, Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas]. Margarida Cortadella (ed.) ; Teresa Montaner (ed.) ; Sonia Villegas (ed.). Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 19 October 2023-25 February 2024 (Contents: The Barcelona legacy of Miró and Picasso / Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon, page 24 -- Miró, Picasso: the boundaries of painting / Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas, page 28 -- 1917-1936 -- Meetings between Picassos Cubism (1910-1924) and Miró (1921-1927) / Christopher Green, page, 62 -- The Starry night: Picasso, Miróand the surrealists in 1924 / Georges Sebbag, page 86 -- Picassos challenge, Miró assassination / Robert Lubar Messeri, page 112 -- 1936-1948 -- This is the colour of their dreams: Miró and Picasso, poets gone wrong / Androula Michael, page 150 -- Picasso and Miró in the 1930s: revolution, destruction and conservation as antidotes to war / Jordana Mendelson, page 162 -- The presence of Jarry and Ubú in the work of Miró and Picasso / Maria Gonzalez-Menendez, page 182 -- Picasso-Miró, post-war lives, 1939-1948 / Victoria Combalía, pàgina 194 -- De lassassinat de la peinture à la céramique: Picasso, Miró and ceramics / Salvador Haro, Harald Theil, page 222 -- 1948-1973 -- Miró, Picasso: a monumental mythology / Thierry Dufrêne, page 250 -- Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró: the sovereign freedom of the late work / Brigitte Leal, page 270 -- List of works, page 304); p. 242

Exhibitions

• Miró-Picasso / direcció del projecte: Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon ; comissariat: Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas: Miró-Picasso / [dirección del proyecto, Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon] ; [comisariado, Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas] = Miró-Picasso / [project direction, Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon] ; [curatorship, Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas]. Margarida Cortadella (ed.) ; Teresa Montaner (ed.) ; Sonia Villegas (ed.). Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 19 October 2023-25 February 2024 (Contents: The Barcelona legacy of Miró and Picasso / Marko Daniel, Emmanuel Guigon, page 24 -- Miró, Picasso: the boundaries of painting / Margarida Cortadella, Elena Llorens, Teresa Montaner, Sònia Villegas, page 28 -- 1917-1936 -- Meetings between Picassos Cubism (1910-1924) and Miró (1921-1927) / Christopher Green, page, 62 -- The Starry night: Picasso, Miróand the surrealists in 1924 / Georges Sebbag, page 86 -- Picassos challenge, Miró assassination / Robert Lubar Messeri, page 112 -- 1936-1948 -- This is the colour of their dreams: Miró and Picasso, poets gone wrong / Androula Michael, page 150 -- Picasso and Miró in the 1930s: revolution, destruction and conservation as antidotes to war / Jordana Mendelson, page 162 -- The presence of Jarry and Ubú in the work of Miró and Picasso / Maria Gonzalez-Menendez, page 182 -- Picasso-Miró, post-war lives, 1939-1948 / Victoria Combalía, pàgina 194 -- De lassassinat de la peinture à la céramique: Picasso, Miró and ceramics / Salvador Haro, Harald Theil, page 222 -- 1948-1973 -- Miró, Picasso: a monumental mythology / Thierry Dufrêne, page 250 -- Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró: the sovereign freedom of the late work / Brigitte Leal, page 270 -- List of works, page 304)