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"tombstone": "Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars (recto) Figure (verso), 1940. Joan Mir\u00f3 (Spanish, 1893\u20131983). Watercolor and gouache over graphite; sheet: 37.9 x 45.8 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965.2. \u00a9 Successi\u00f3 Mir\u00f3 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
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"title": "Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars (recto) Figure (verso)",
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"measurements": "Sheet: 37.9 x 45.8 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Successi\u00f3 Mir\u00f3 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
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"inscription": "Signed, lower left, in black gouache: Mir\u00f3. Inscribed on verso, at center: Joan Mir\u00f3 / Femme \u00e0 la blonde aisselle coiffant / sa ch\u00e9velure \u00e0 la lueur des \u00e9toiles / Varengeville s mer / 5/III/1940",
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"title": "Mir\u00f3 by Fondation Maeght",
"description": "Mir\u00f3 by Fondation Maeght. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.",
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"id": 361495,
"title": "Mir\u00f3 at Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz",
"description": "Mir\u00f3 at Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.",
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"id": 300794,
"title": "Year in Review: 1965",
"description": "Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1965-10-27T04:00:00"
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"id": 300904,
"title": "Fifty Years of Modern Art",
"description": "Fifty Years of Modern Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 15-July 31, 1966).",
"opening_date": "1966-06-15T04:00:00"
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"id": 518118,
"title": "Exposition Miro",
"description": "Exposition Miro. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (organizer) (July 23-September 30, 1968).",
"opening_date": "1968-07-23T04:00:00"
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"id": 304404,
"title": "The Spirit of Surrealism",
"description": "The Spirit of Surrealism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979).",
"opening_date": "1979-10-03T04:00:00"
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"id": 361484,
"title": "Mir\u00f3 in America",
"description": "Mir\u00f3 in America. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (April 21-June 27, 1982).",
"opening_date": "1982-04-21T05:00:00"
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"id": 310025,
"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-09-16T04:00:00"
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"id": 192019,
"title": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2000-08-27T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 181802,
"title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).",
"opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 229586,
"title": "Joan Mir\u00f3: The Ladder of Escape",
"description": "Joan Mir\u00f3: The Ladder of Escape. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 14-September 11, 2011); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (May 6-August 12, 2012).",
"opening_date": "2011-04-14T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 291279,
"title": "Mir\u00f3: The Constellations",
"description": "Mir\u00f3: The Constellations. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (organizer) (April 20-May 27, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2017-04-20T04:00:00"
}
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"description": "Joan Mir\u00f3: Constellations. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York and Paris (1959).",
"opening_date": "1959-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Joan Mir\u00f3: Ceramics 1944, Tempera Paintings 1940 to 1941, Lithographs 1944. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1945).",
"opening_date": "1945-01-01T00:00:00"
}
]
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{
"description": "(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, sold to Dwight Ripley, New York)",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "probably 1945-by 1950",
"sortorder": 1
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{
"description": "Dwight Ripley [1908-1973], New York",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "by 1950-before 1966",
"sortorder": 2
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{
"description": "Mrs. Samuel S. White [1888-1966], Ardmore, PA",
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"date": "by 1962-1966",
"sortorder": 3
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{
"description": "(E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc. and Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "1966",
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"did_you_know": "This drawing was published in book alongside the other works from Joan Miro's \"Constellations\" series, accompanied by poems written by Andr\u00e9 Breton.",
"early_education_description": null,
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"description": "This drawing belongs to a group of 23 works made by Joan Miro between January 1940 and September 1941, which he called \"Constellations.\" All were made in Normandy, where the artist had retreated from the Spanish civil war. Miro juxtaposed blurry layers of watercolor in earthy tones with neatly linear lines in black ink and shapes in white gouache to develop his own language of symbols that suggested, in his words, \"the night, music, and the stars.\" The fifth in the series, this drawing is dominated by a vague figural form at center, who draws a comb through her hair while holding a mirror through which shines the moon and a star. The allover abstract composition was a major influence on later artists, following a 1945 exhibition in New York.",
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"citations": [
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"citation": "Mir\u00f3. Barcelona: Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 61, no. 42",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Joan Mir\u00f3: Ceramics, 1944, Tempera Paintings, 1940 to 1941, Lithographs 1944. Exh. Cat. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1945.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 5",
"url": null
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"citation": "Breton, Andr\u00e9. Constellations. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1959.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: plate 5",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Painting of the Month.\" Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 15, 1965.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"Catalogue.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (November 1965).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 143, p. 157, no. 172; Reproduced: p. 142",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 199",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n223"
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 77",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Alsop, Joseph. \"Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" Art in America (May-June 1966): 21-44.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 30",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \"Joan Mir\u00f3: Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55 (1968): 71-77.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 71-77; Reproduced: pp. 74-75",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Mir\u00f3. Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 38",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 199",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n223"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3"
},
{
"citation": "Tapi\u00e9, Michel. Joan Mir\u00f3. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 20, no. 52; Reproduced: plate 52",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Sweeney, James Johnson. Joan Miro\u0301 photoscop visual language. New York: Tudor Pub. Co, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 99",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cooper, Barbara and Maureen Matheson. The World Museums Guide. London: Threshold Books, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 78",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 248",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n268"
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 80-81, 175, fig. 34; Reproduced: fig. 34, p. 81; color plate XXI",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \"A Painting by Joan Mir\u00f3.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 6 (September 1979): 234-240.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 239-40; Reproduced: p. 240",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rose, Barbara. Mir\u00f3 in America. Exh. Cat. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rolnik, Marc. Mir\u00f3's Constellations: The Facsimile Edition of 1959. Purchase, NY: Neuberger Muesum, State University of New York at Purchase, 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: p. 5",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Serra, Pere A. Mir\u00f3 and Mallorca. New York: Rizzoli, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 288, no. 57; Reproduced: p. 57",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Malet, Rosa Maria. Joan Mir\u00f3. New York: Rizzoli, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 57",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Malina, Judith. The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-1957. New York: Grove Press, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 391",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Penrose, Roland. Mir\u00f3. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 185",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rowell, Margit, ed. Joan Mir\u00f3: Selected Writings and Interviews. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 170",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 79, no. 38; Reproduced: p. 80, plate VII; Mentioned and reproduced: P. 129, no. 38",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Bozal Ferna\u0301ndez, Valeriano. Pintura y escultura espan\u0303olas del siglo XX. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1992.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 384; Reproduced: p. 385",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Dupin, Jacques\u0301. Miro\u0301. [Barcelona]: Poli\u0301grafa; New York: Abrams, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 271; Reproduced: p. 251",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lanchner, Carolyn. Joan Mir\u00f3. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 417, no. 160; Reproduced: p. 242",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Joan Mir\u00f3 Campo de Estrellas. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 114, 153, no. 65; Reproduced: p. 114",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Dupin, Jacques and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Joan Mir\u00f3: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, Paintings. Paris: Daniel Lelong, Successio Miro, 1999-",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 236, no. 632",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 264-265, 298; Reproduced: P. 264-265, cat. no. 112",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Calder, Mir\u00f3. Calder, Mir\u00f3 Constellations. New York: Rizzoli, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 86-87",
"url": null
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"citation": "Dupin, Jacques. Mir\u00f3. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 541, no. 542",
"url": null
}
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