Group of Figures (Groupe de Personnages)

© 2015 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Group of Figures (Groupe de Personnages)

Spain, 1938
Paintings
Oil on canvas
21 x 24 1/2 in. (53.34 x 62.23 cm)
Gift of Robert H. Halff through the Modern and Contemporary Art Council (M.2005.38.8)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1893-1983); [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York]; sold between 1938 and 1940 to Dr. Albert C. Barnes....
The artist (1893-1983); [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York]; sold between 1938 and 1940 to Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Charles Laughton (1899–1962), Los Angeles; sold to Billy Wilder (1906-2002), Los Angeles; [Paul Kantor, Beverly Hills]; sold in 1957 to Robert H. Halff; bequeathed in 2005 LACMA.
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Label

Shortly after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Joan Miró left his native country to visit Paris, where, unable to return to Spain, he would remain for the next four years....
Shortly after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Joan Miró left his native country to visit Paris, where, unable to return to Spain, he would remain for the next four years. Deeply affected by the 1937 bombing of Guernica and the spread of Nazism, Miró struggled to adapt to the challenging working and living conditions for his family. Nevertheless, he would produce many remarkable works during his Paris stay, many of them small in scale like Group of Figures, painted on October 17, 1938. Known for his surreal, fanciful images that express the subconscious, here Miró positions a frightened figure with raised arms and hair on end, about to be attacked from below and to the right by predatory forms.

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Bibliography

  • Greenberg, Clement. Joan Miró. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1950.
  • Dupin, Jacques, and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings. Paris and Palma de Mallorca: Daniel Lelong and Succesió Miró, 2000.