Lot 65 | Joan Miró | Nocturne

MIRÓ, JOAN
1893 Barcelona - 1983 Cala Major/Mallorca

Title: Nocturne.
Date: 1953/58.
Technique: Colour lithograph on vellum.
Depiction Size: 148 x 37cm.
Sheet Size: 148 x 51,5cm.
Notation: Signed and inscribed.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris (publisher).
Number: HC.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed (171 x 65cm).


Condition:
Sheet mounted in folds on stand in places, partially bleeding through recto. Due to the mounting slightly wavy. Generally slightly discoloured, more intensely at the edges. Occasional foxing in places in the margin, in the upper and lower left half each an a bit larger bright brownish discolouration. Centre fold, this is shortly torn at the bottom and presumably partially backed. Margin areas with traces of handling. Otherwise in good condition. Not examined out of the frame.

This lithograph, originally included in 'Derrière le miroir' in the form of a fold-out sheet, was printed in a separate edition in 1958. HC copy in addition to the edition of 100 copies.

Provenance:
- Kunsthandlung Boisserée, Cologne (label)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Leiris, Michel: Juan Miró - Litógrafo II, 1953-1963, Barcelona 1975, cat. rais. no. 136, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts - Die Sammlung Bayer, Berlin 2013, p. 132, ill.


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