Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (on original backboard, in pen and ink): Joan Miró. / "Femme" / Octobre 1934.
[Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, probably 1935–57; sold on December 11, 1957 to Zeisler]; Richard S. Zeisler, New York (1957–d. 2007; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Joan Miró, 1933–1934: Paintings, Tempera, Pastels," January 10–February 9, 1935, nos. 20–24 [one of "Pastels"].
Waltham, Mass. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "A Century of Modern European Painting," June 3–July 2, 1961, no. 26 (lent by Mr. Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne. "Joan Miró," June–November 1962, no. 123 (as "Femme," lent by M. Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
New York. Royal S. Marks Gallery. "Miro," 1963 [possibly this picture].
Tate Gallery, London. "Joan Miró," August 27–October 11, 1964, no. 117 (lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Joan Miró," October 31–December 6, 1964, no. 117.
New York. Acquavella Galleries. "Joan Miró," October 18–November 18, 1972, no. 26.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Museum des Geldes: Über die seltsame Natur des Geldes in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Leben," November 18, 1978–February 4, 1979, no. II/40 (as "Femme [Frau]," lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Eindhoven. Van Abbemuseum. "Museum des Geldes: een tentoonstelling over de bijzondere aard van het geld in kunst, wetenschap en leven," March 9–April 8, 1979, no. 137 (as "Femme [vrouw]").
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Musée des sacrifices. Musée de l'argent: De la nature étrange de l'argent dans l'art, la société et la vie," July 4–September 24, 1979, unnumbered cat. (p. 17; as "Femme").
St. Louis. Washington University Gallery of Art. "Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language," March 19–April 27, 1980, unnumbered cat. (fig. 26; lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago. "Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language," May 15–June 18, 1980, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Miró in America," April 21–June 27, 1982, not in catalogue.
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Joan Miró," November 21, 1986–February 1, 1987, no. 92 (as "Femme," lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Joan Miró: A Retrospective," May 15–August 23, 1987, no. 76 (as "Woman [Femme]," lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Berkeley. University Art Museum, University of California. "Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art," October 3–December 30, 1990, unnumbered cat. (pl. 71; as "Woman [Femme]," lent by Richard S. Zeisler).
Barcelona. Fundació Joan Miró. "Joan Miró, 1893–1993," April 20–August 30, 1993, no. 124 (as "Mujer," lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Joan Miró," October 17, 1993–January 11, 1994, no. 118 (lent by Richard S. Zeisler).
Kunsthalle Vienna. "Das grausame Spiel: Surrealismus in Spanien, 1924–1939," May 12–July 16, 1995, no. 127 (lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "Années 30 en Europe: Le temps menaçant 1929–1939," February 20–May 25, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 198; lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927–1937," November 2, 2008–January 12, 2009, unnumbered cat. (pl. 71).
Joan Miró. Letter to Pierre Matisse. October 12, 1934 [English translation published in Ref. Rowell 1986, p. 124], states that he will send large pastels to the Pierre Matisse Gallery in the beginning of December for exhibition in January 1935.
"Les Expositions." Cahiers d'art 10, nos. 1–4 (1935), ill. p. 95 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1935).
Clement Greenberg. Joan Miró. rev. ed. [1st ed., 1948]. New York, 1950, p. 130, pl. 25, calls it "Woman with Star" and locates it in the collection of the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York City.
Jacques Dupin. Joan Miró: Life and Work. New York, [1962], pp. 264–65, 529, no. 372, ill. and ill. p. 251, calls it "Personage".
Roland Penrose. Joan Miró. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1964, pp. 8, 33–34, no. 117, pl. 24a.
Manuel Gasser. Joan Miró. New York, 1965, p. 86, ill. p. 36 (color), erroneously locates it in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Douglas Cooper. Joan Miró. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 1972, unpaginated, no. 26, ill. (color).
Sidra Stich. Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language. Exh. cat., Washington University Gallery of Art. St. Louis, 1980, pp. 35–38, 66, fig. 26.
Werner Schmalenbach. Joan Miró: Zeichnungen aus den späten Jahren. Berlin, 1982, p. 34, ill., locates it in a private collection, New York.
Margit Rowell, ed. Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews. Boston, 1986, p. 124.
Sidra Stich. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley. New York, 1990, pp. 61–63, 66–67, 171 n. 36, p. 288, colorpl. 71.
Juan Punyet-Miró and Gloria Lolivier-Rahola. Joan Miró, le peintre aux étoiles. [Paris], 1993, ill. p. 55 (color).
Carolyn Lanchner. Joan Miró. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1993, p. 61, ill. p. 199 (color).
Anne Umland in Carolyn Lanchner. Joan Miró. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1993, p. 331.
Lilian Tone in Carolyn Lanchner. Joan Miró. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1993, p. 404, no. 118, ill.
Hajo Düchting in Walter Erben. Joan Miró, 1893–1983: The Man and His Work. Cologne, 1993, p. 75, ill. (color), locates it in a private collection.
Victoria Combalía. Picasso-Miró: Miradas cruzadas. Madrid, 1998, p. 90, fig. 70.
Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Joan Miró: Catalogue raisonné. Paintings. Vol. 2, 1931–1941. [Paris], 2000, p. 110, no. 466, ill.
Robert S. Lubar. "Painting and Politics: Miró's 'Still Life with Old Shoe' and the Spanish Republic." Surrealism, Politics and Culture. Ed. Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss. Burlington, Vt., 2003, p. 134, fig. 24 (reproduced upside down).
Robin Adèle Greeley. Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War. New Haven, 2006, pp. 36–37, 204 n. 90, fig. 21.
Sabine Rewald in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2007–2008." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 66 (Fall 2008), p. 49, ill. (color).
Anne Umland. Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927–1937. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2008, pp. 150, 152–53, 155, 227 nn. 2–4, 8, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 29, p. 235, colorpl. 71.
Holland Cotter. "Miró, Serial Murderer of Artistic Conventions." New York Times (October 31, 2008), p. C32, ill.
Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)
1956
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