Passage of the Divine Bird
Artist: Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Date: 1941
Dimensions:
painting: 18 x 14 7/8 in. (45.7 x 37.8 cm)
framed: 26 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (79.7 x 72.1 cm)
Medium: gouache and oil
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1996.21
Label Text:Miró explained that his Constellations series, twenty-three paintings executed in France and Spain from January 1940 to September 1941, "had its source in music and nature. It was about the time that the war broke out. I felt a deep desire to escape. I closed myself within myself purposely. The night, music, and the stars began to play a major role in suggesting my paintings … They were based on reflections in water. Not naturalistically - or objectively - to be sure. But forms suggested by such reflections."
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