Woman Haunted by the Passage of the Bird-Dragonfly Omen of Bad News
Woman Haunted by the Passage of the Bird-Dragonfly Omen of Bad News
Artist
Joan Miró
(Spanish, 1893-1983)
Date1938
DimensionsPainting: 31 1/2 × 124 in. (80 × 315 cm)
Frame: 34 1/4 × 127 × 2 3/4 in. (87 × 322.6 × 7 cm)
Frame: 34 1/4 × 127 × 2 3/4 in. (87 × 322.6 × 7 cm)
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1986.25
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 03
Vargas, L., "Joan Miró," Konstrevy, Stockholm, vol. 15, no. 2, 1939, repr. p. 71.
R. F., "The Passing Show: Joan Miró," Art News, vol. 40, no. 3, Mar. 15-31, 1941, p. 43.
Greenberg, Clement, Joan Miró, New York, 1948, repr. pl. XLVII, p. 86.
Cirlot, J. E., Joan Miró, 1949, repr. pl. 23.
Duthuit, Georges, "Joan Miró," Mizue, no. 570, Feb. 1953, fig. 7, p. 30.
Prévert, Jacques, and George Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró, Paris, 1956, repr. p. 38.
M[unsterberg], H[ugo], "In the Galleries: Joan Miró," Arts,/i>, vol. 33, no. 3, Dec. 1958, p. 53.
Dupin, Jacques, Joan Miró: Life and Work, New York, 1962, p. 345, no. 491, repr. p. 538.
Bonnefoy, Yves, Miró, Paris, 1964, p. 22, pl. 39 (col., folded).
Feldman, Edmund Burke, Varieties of Visual Experience, Englewood Cliffs, 1971, repr. p. 91 [as Nursery Decoration].
Millard, Charles W., Miró: Selected Paintings, Washington, 1980, p. 27.
Stich, Sandra, Joan Miro: The Development of Sign Language, St. Louis, MO, Washington University, 1980, p. 42-43, no. 37 (repr.).
"La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 109, no. 1418, Mar. 1987, p. 48.
Erben, Walter, Joan Miró, 1893-1983: The Man and His Work, Cologne, 1988, repr. p. 92-93 (col.).
Preble, Duane and Sarah, Artforms, 4th ed., New York, Harper & Row, 1989, p. 408-409, fig. 540.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 168-169, repr. (col.).
Dupin, Jacques, and Ariane Lelong-Mainand, Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, vol. II, 1931-1941, Paris, Daniel Lelong - Successió Miró, 2000, p. 209, repr. (col.).
Hoving, Kirsten A., "Highlight: Jackson Pollock's Galaxy,/i>, Outer Space and Artist's Space in Pollock's Cosmic Paintings," American Art, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 2002, p. 82, fig. 1, p. 84.
Coyle, Laura, "The Monsters in America: The Presentation and Reception of Miró's Sculpture in th United States," in The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture, Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2002, p. 73, 86, n. 73, fig. 23.
Preble, Duane, et al., Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, 7th ed., Upper Saddle River, 2002, p. 427, repr. (col.).
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, pp. 318-19, repr. (col.).
Frank, Patrick, Prebles' Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, 2011, fig. 22.7 (col.) p. 377.
Daniel, Marko and Matthew Gale, eds., Joan Miro: the Ladder of Escape, London, Tate Publishing, 2011, no. 7, repr. (col.) pp. 24-25. (not in exhibition)
Chauveau, Bernard, ed., Jackie Matisse: jeux d'espace, Le Cateau-Cambrésis , Musée départemental Matisse, 2013, repr. (col.) p. 28.
Exhibition HistoryParis, Galerie Pierre, Joan Miró: Un panneau décoratif et quelques gouaches, 1938.New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miró: Paintings, Gouaches, 1941.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, 1941-1942, p. 62, repr. p. 67 [author: James Johnson Sweeney] [as Nursery Decoration].
New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art, 1952 [as Nursery Decoration].
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Joan Miró: Peintures Sauvages, 1958, no .11, repr.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, 1959, pp. 98-99, repr. (col.) pp. 98-99 [author: James Thrall Soby] [as Nursery Decoration].
St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum, Miró in St. Louis, 1965.
St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language, 1980, pp. 42-45, 68, repr. fig. 37, p. 43.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Aus privaten Sammlungen, 1986, no. 30, repr. (col.).
Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, 1990, p. 159, 160, 288, pl. 200 (col.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joan Miró, 1993-1994, no. 153, p. 414, 415, repr. p. 232-235 (col.).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler; Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Calder, Miro, 2004-05, no. 118, repr. (col.) pp. 172-73
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Barcelona & Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí (1868-1939), Oct. 2006 - Jan. 2007.
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