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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, UK
Lot 12AR

JOAN MIRÓ
(1893-1983)
Etude pour 'Ubu Roi'

7 – 8 April 2022, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

Etude pour 'Ubu Roi'
signed 'Miró.' (lower right)
brush and ink, crayon and collage on paper
32.7 x 50cm (12 7/8 x 19 11/16in).
Executed circa 1953

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Provenance
Tériade Collection, Paris.
Acquavella Galleries, New York (by 1984).
Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris.
Private collection, Switzerland; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1986, lot 521.
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above).
Thence by descent to the present owners.

Exhibited
Tokyo, Grande Gallery Odakyu, Retrospective Exhibition of Miró, 6 - 18 April 1984, no. 43 (later travelled within Japan; titled 'L'Enfance d'Ubu').

Literature
J. Dupin & A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné. Drawings, Vol. II, 1938-1959, Paris, 2010, no. 1355 (illustrated p. 256).

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