id: 141602 accession number: 1965.2 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.2 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:13.271000 Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars (recto) Figure (verso), 1940. Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983). 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 © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris title: Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars (recto) Figure (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1940 creation date earliest: 1940 creation date latest: 1940 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: Watercolor and gouache over graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - Spanish type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Dupin and Lelong-Mainaud 632 --- CREATORS * Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.9 x 45.8 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed, lower left, in black gouache: Miró. Inscribed on verso, at center: Joan Miró / Femme à la blonde aisselle coiffant / sa chévelure à la lueur des étoiles / Varengeville s mer / 5/III/1940 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Miró at Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz opening date: Miró at Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. title: Miró by Fondation Maeght opening date: Miró by Fondation Maeght. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. title: Year in Review: 1965 opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965). title: Fifty Years of Modern Art opening date: 1966-06-15T04:00:00 Fifty Years of Modern Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 15-July 31, 1966). title: Exposition Miro opening date: 1968-07-23T04:00:00 Exposition Miro. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (organizer) (July 23-September 30, 1968). title: The Spirit of Surrealism opening date: 1979-10-03T04:00:00 The Spirit of Surrealism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979). title: Miró in America opening date: 1982-04-21T05:00:00 Miró in America. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (April 21-June 27, 1982). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 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). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 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). title: Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape opening date: 2011-04-14T00:00:00 Joan Miró: 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). title: Miró: The Constellations opening date: 2017-04-20T04:00:00 Miró: The Constellations. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (organizer) (April 20-May 27, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Joan Miró: Constellations. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York and Paris (1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Joan Miró: Ceramics 1944, Tempera Paintings 1940 to 1941, Lithographs 1944. Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1945).', 'opening_date': '1945-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, sold to Dwight Ripley, New York) date: probably 1945-by 1950 footnotes: citations: Dwight Ripley [1908-1973], New York date: by 1950-before 1966 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Samuel S. White [1888-1966], Ardmore, PA date: by 1962-1966 footnotes: citations: (E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc. and Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Miró. Barcelona: Recinto del Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 61, no. 42 url: Joan Miró: Ceramics, 1944, Tempera Paintings, 1940 to 1941, Lithographs 1944. Exh. Cat. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1945. page number: Mentioned: no. 5 url: Breton, André. Constellations. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1959. page number: Reproduced: plate 5 url: "Painting of the Month." Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 15, 1965. page number: Mentioned and reproduced url: "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: 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 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: 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: Henning, Edward B. "Joan Miró: 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: Miró. Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Fondation Maeght, 1968. page number: Mentioned: no. 38 url: 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 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 Tapié, Michel. Joan Miró. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 20, no. 52; Reproduced: plate 52 url: Sweeney, James Johnson. Joan Miró photoscop visual language. New York: Tudor Pub. Co, 1970. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 99 url: Cooper, Barbara and Maureen Matheson. The World Museums Guide. London: Threshold Books, 1973. page number: Mentioned: p. 78 url: 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 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: Henning, Edward B. "A Painting by Joan Miró." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 6 (September 1979): 234-240. page number: Mentioned: pp. 239-40; Reproduced: p. 240 url: Rose, Barbara. Miró in America. Exh. Cat. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 4 url: Rolnik, Marc. Miró'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: Serra, Pere A. Miró and Mallorca. New York: Rizzoli, 1984. page number: Mentioned: p. 288, no. 57; Reproduced: p. 57 url: Malet, Rosa Maria. Joan Miró. New York: Rizzoli, 1984. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 57 url: Malina, Judith. The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-1957. New York: Grove Press, 1984. page number: Mentioned: p. 391 url: Penrose, Roland. Miró. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 185 url: Rowell, Margit, ed. Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. page number: Mentioned: p. 170 url: 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: Bozal Fernández, Valeriano. Pintura y escultura españolas del siglo XX. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 384; Reproduced: p. 385 url: Dupin, Jacqueś. Miró. [Barcelona]: Polígrafa; New York: Abrams, 1993. page number: Mentioned: p. 271; Reproduced: p. 251 url: Lanchner, Carolyn. Joan Miró. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1993. page number: Mentioned: p. 417, no. 160; Reproduced: p. 242 url: Joan Miró Campo de Estrellas. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1993. page number: Mentioned: pp. 114, 153, no. 65; Reproduced: p. 114 url: Dupin, Jacques and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings. Paris: Daniel Lelong, Successio Miro, 1999- page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 236, no. 632 url: 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: Calder, Miró. Calder, Miró Constellations. New York: Rizzoli, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 86-87 url: Dupin, Jacques. Miró. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 541, no. 542 url: --- IMAGES