Joan Miró
Bird (Oiseau)

Bird (Oiseau)

© Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

Bird (Oiseau)
Bird (Oiseau)
ArtistSpanish, 1893–1983
CultureSpanish
Titles
  • Bird (Oiseau)
Date1968, cast 1981
Designed in , Spain
Fabricated inVerona, Italy
MediumBronze, ed. 5/6
Dimensions81 3/4 × 63 × 57 in. (207.6 × 160 × 144.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2000.540
Current Location
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
Sculpture Garden
On view

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Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Object Type
Provenance[Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York]; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland]; [Galerie Gmurzynska Zug, Switzerland]; sold through [Danese Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Exhibition History"Miro Sculpture," The Pace Gallery, New York, April 27–June 9, 1984.

"Flache. Figur. Raum. Skulptur. Relief. Collage," Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, April 29–July 30, 2000 [cast #5/6 exhibited].

"The Exhibitions from Swiss Private Collections," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, May 17–June 16, 1996; Huis ten Bosch Museum of Art, Nagasaki, June 22–August 15, 1996; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, August 20–September 29, 1996; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, October 5–November 5, 1996 [cast #5/6 exhibited].

"La sculpture des peintures," Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France, 1997.





Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed at the lower portion of the rear leg, frontal area of the leg in reference to the Glassell entrance: "FONDERIA BONVICINI / VERONA / ITALY"
Inscribed on lower portion of the rear leg, above the area and to the left of the foundry inscription: "Miro 5/6"

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