id:			141604
accession number:	1965.2.b
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.2.b
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Figure (verso), 1940. Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 45.8 x 37.9 cm (18 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1965.2.b © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

title:				Figure (verso)
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creation date:			1940
creation date earliest:		1940
creation date latest:		1940
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creditline:			Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright:			© Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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culture:	Spain, 20th century
technique:	pen and brown ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Spanish
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 45.8 x 37.9 cm (18 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
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	description:	white wove paper
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	inscription:	verso, signed, center, in brown ink: Joan Miró / *Femme à la blonde aisselle coiffant / sa chévelure à la lueur des étoiles* / Varengeville s/mer / 5/iii/1940; center left, in graphite: 5 [circled] 

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exposition Miro
	opening date:   1968-07-23T04:00:00
	<i>Exposition Miro</i>. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (organizer) (July 23-September 30, 1968).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Possibly New York 1945, no. 5 (all the "Constellation" series drawings, except Nocturne, the one Miró gave to his wife, are listed in the brochure printed for the 1945 exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery; according to Lilian Tone, however, who compiled exhibition histories for the 1993 Miró retrospective [New York 1993-94], not all the "Constellation" drawings were shown there; she listed only the few mentioned in contemporary reviews of the show as ones we know for certain were in the exhibition); possibly New York 1959b (according to New York 1993-94, 417, under no. 160); Paris 1959b (according to New York 1993-94, 417, under no. 160); cma 1965f; Cleveland 1966, 204, no. 77 (repr.); Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1968, no. 38; Barcelona 1968-69, 61, no. 42; Cleveland 1979b, 80-81, no. 34, 175, color pl. xxi; Houston 1982, 4; Cleveland 1987, 79-82, no. 38, color pl. vii; Madrid 1993, 153, no. 65 (repr.) 114; New York 1993-94, 417, no. 160, 242 (color repr.).', 'opening_date': '1945-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> 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, cat. no. 112
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