Inscription: Incised (under leg): Miró 7/8 Stamped (under leg): VG _ _ ENO FUNDIT ~ BARNA

Pierre Matisse, New York (likely acquired from Miro, 1947 - possibly sold or given to Patricia Kane Matta, née Patricia O'Connell Kane (1923-1972), in 1947) -- Or she may have acquired it earlier, from Galerie Maeght in Paris); Patricia Matta, later Patricia Matisse, New York (possibly from Pierre Matisse, 1947 - her d. 1972); Pierre Matisse, New York (inherited from Patricia, 1972 - his d. 1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989 - her d. 2001); Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA).

"Joan Miró: Exhibition of Paintings, Gouaches, Pastels, and Bronzes, 1942-1946," Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, May 13-June 7, 1947, exh. cat., no. 29 [possibly our cast];

"Cézanne till Picasso: Fransk konst i Svensk ägo," Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, September 1954, exh. cat. with foreword by Kjell Hägglöf and essay by Ragnar Hoppe, no. 490, p. 105, ill. [unspecified cast];

"Joan Miro Exhibition - Japan," Musée national d'art moderne, Tokyo, August 26-October 9, 1966, Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, October 20-November 30, 1966, exh. cat. with text by Shuzo Takiguchi, no. 126, pp. 154 (ill.), 175 [not our cast];

"Miró Sculptures," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 3-November 28, 1971, Cleveland Museum of Art, February 2-March 12, 1972, and Art Institute of Chicago, April 15-May 28, 1972, exh. cat. with essay by Jacques Dupin, and 1970 interview of Miro by Dean Swanson, no. 1 [likely our cast];

"Sculpture in the Pierre Matisse Gallery Collection: Butler, Giacometti, Ipousteguy, Marini, Mason, Miro, Riopelle, Roszak," Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, November 30-April 13, 1984, exh cat., ill. p. 29 [unspecified cast];

"Joan Miró: Skulptur, Graphik, Malerei / Sculptures, oeuvres graphiques, peintures," Liechtenstein Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, June 8-August 31, 1997, exh.cat. in German and French, no. 30, pp. 31 (ill.), 126 [another cast];

"Joan Miró," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, September 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, exh.cat. in Louisiana Revy, vol. 39, no. 1 (September 1998), with forword by curator, Steingrim Laursen, and essays by Jacques Dupin, Rosa Maria Malet, and Ragnar von Holten, no. 121, pp. 90 (ill.), 128 [not our cast];

"The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh. in three parts, May 18, 2004-June 26, 2005, no cat. (see MMA Bulletin 2004) [our cast];

"La Colección Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York / The Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," Museo Picasso, Malaga, March 26-June 24, 2007, exh. cat. edited by Bernardo Laniado-Romero, texts by Pierre Schneider and Jonathan Pascoe Pratt, ill. p. 150, no. 49, pp. 195 (installation view of exh. at Pierre Matisse Gallery in 1947), 196, 197 [our cast].

Clement Greenberg, Joan Miró (New York 1948), ill. p. 43 [unspecified cast];

Alejandro Cirici-Pellicer, Miró y la imaginación (Barcelona 1949), pl. 60 [unspecified cast];

"Miro: Pastels, Gouaches, Drawings, Sculptures, 1933-1943" Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, December 6-31, 1949, folded poster with checklist, not listed but ill. [unspecified cast];

Jacques Prévert and G. Ribemont-Dessaignes, Joan Miró (Paris 1956), ill. p. 203 [not a bronze] ;

James Johnson Sweeney, ed., with Joaquin Gomis and J. Prats, The Miró Atmosphere (New York 1959), ill. pp. 29 (terra cotta, 1945), 61 (unspecified bronze cast, 1945);

Roland Penrose, Creation in Space of Joan Miró (New York 1966), pl. 2 & 4 [unspecified cast];

David Sylvester, "Fowl of Venus," in: Miró: Oiseau Solaire, Oiseau Lunaire, Étincelles, exh. cat., Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1967, pp. 5-15 (general discussion);

John Russell, "Miró's Sculptures," Studio International, vol. 179 (May 1970), p. 224;

Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró: Sculptures (Paris 1973), no. 26, ills. pp. 19, 193;

William Rubin, Miró in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, including remainder-interest and promised gifts (New York 1973), pp. 98, 134, ill. fig. 67 (not our cast);

Dawn Ades, "Miró: Objects and Sculptures," in: The Touch of Dreams: Joan Miró Ceramics and Bronzes, 1949-1980, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1985, pp. 26-27;

Obra de Joan Miró: Dibuixos, pintura, escultura, cerámica, textiles, exh. cat. (Fundacio Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 1988), no. 1392, ill. (related drawing, inv. F.J.M. 3520), and no. 1393, ill. [another cast];

William Jeffett, "Joan Miró's Vagabond Sculpture," in: Joan Miró: Sculpture, exh. cat., The South Bank Centre, Southampton, 1989, pp. 9-10, ill. p. 27;

Pere Gimferrer, The Roots of Miró, with catalogue raisonné by Rosa Maria Malet (New York 1993), no. 541, ill. p. 285, cat. 1124 p. 397 [another cast];

Carolyn Lanchner, Joan Miró, exh. cat. (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17, 1993-January 11, 1994), app. no. 14, ill. pp. 262, 434 [another cast];

Rosa Maria Malet, Fundació Joan Miró, Guia (Barcelona 1999), ill. p. 76 [another cast];

Gianfranco Bruno, "Joan Miró: Tra realtà e immaginario," in: Joan Miró: L'armonia del fantastico, exh. cat. in Italian and English (Genoa, Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, 2001), ill. p. 26; [not a specific cast]

Magdalena Dabrowski, William S. Lieberman, and Sabine Rewald, "Selections from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61, no. 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 44-45 (entry by S.R.), ill.; [our cast]

Emilio Fernández Miró and Pilar Ortega Chapel, Joan Miró, Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné, 1928-1982 (Paris 2006), no. 31, pp. 48-49, ill. [all casts]

Sabine Rewald in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 126-27, 165, ill.