Seated Nude Holding a Flower
The brilliant colors in Miró's early work owe much to Fauve examples, but the details of the bird and flower already show his interest in playful depictions of nature. Painted when he was only twenty-four and still going to art school, the picture was shown at Miró's first one-person exhibition, at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona.
Artwork Details
- Title: Seated Nude Holding a Flower
- Artist: Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca)
- Date: 1917
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 32 × 25 3/4 in. (81.3 × 65.4 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
- Object Number: 1999.363.47
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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