Woman in a cemetery

Author

Joan Miró

Title

Femme sur la place d'un cimetière

Woman in a cemetery

Date

1981

Medium

Bronze

Sizes

60 x 97,5 x 51 cm

Signature

Miró

Credit line

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Purchase

Provenance

Purchase

Register Number

FJM 12891

Edition

Edition:
10 casts signed and justified: 6 numbered from 1 to 6, 1 artist's proof marked P.A. and numbered, 2 nominative casts funded in 1987 and 1989 and 1 cast numbered 0 funded in 1994

Foundry:
Fundició Parellada, Barcelona

Remarks

A drawing kept on the book "[Escultures] III" at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca has allowed us to title this sculpture (see Lax/Bordoy 2005, p. 284).

Bibliography

• Poesia a l'espai: Miró i l'escultura. Palma de Mallorca: Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, 30 March-2 June 1996
  • Jeffett, William. "Les darreres escultures de Joan Miró en el context dels estudis de Son Boter i Sert, 1975-1983"; p. 24
• Joan Miró: L'armonia del fantastico. Genoa: Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, 7 July-15 September 2001; ill. n. 46, p. 116 (col.); cat. n. 46, p. 169
• De la figuration au geste: Miró à Tours. Tours: Château de Tours, 27 October 2001-27 February 2002; ill. p. 199 (col.); cat. p. 215
• Mediterraneo Miró. Luigi Fiorletta ; Massimo Bignardi. Salerno: Complesso di Santa Sofia, 16 November 2002-16 January 2003; p. 24, 32, 111; ill. p. 132-133 (col.); cat. p. 182
• Joan Miró: Alchimista del segno. Como: Villa Olmo, 13 March-6 June 2004
  • Bignardi, Massimo. "Il sogno dell'alchimista Miró"; p. 40
• Fernández Miró, Emilio ; Ortega Chapel, Pilar. Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné: Sculptures. 1928-1982. Paris: Daniel Lelong; Palma de Mallorca: Successió Miró, 2006; ill. n. 366, p. 341 (col.)
• Joan Miró: I miti del Mediterraneo. Pisa: Palazzo Blu, 9 October 2010-23 January 2011; p. 29; ill. p. 211 (col.)
• Joan Miró: Peintre-poète. Brussels: Espace Culturel ING, 24 March-19 June 2011; ill. p. 132 (col.)
• Miró i l'objecte. William Jeffett. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 29 October 2015-17 January 2016 (Spanish edition: Miró y el objeto. English edition: Miró and the Object); ill. n. 94, p. 174 (col.); cat. n. 94, p. 210

Exhibitions

• Joan Miró: L'armonia del fantastico. Genoa: Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, 7 July-15 September 2001
• De la figuration au geste: Miró à Tours. Tours: Château de Tours, 27 October 2001-27 February 2002
• Mediterraneo Miró. Luigi Fiorletta ; Massimo Bignardi. Salerno: Complesso di Santa Sofia, 16 November 2002-16 January 2003
• Joan Miró: Alchimista del segno. Como: Villa Olmo, 13 March-6 June 2004
• Joan Miró: I miti del Mediterraneo. Pisa: Palazzo Blu, 9 October 2010-23 January 2011
• Joan Miró: Peintre-poète. Brussels: Espace Culturel ING, 24 March-19 June 2011
• Miró i l'objecte. William Jeffett. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 29 October 2015-17 January 2016 (Spanish edition: Miró y el objeto. English edition: Miró and the Object)