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Self Portrait II

Joan Miró Spanish, 1893-1983
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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Self Portrait II

1938

Joan Miró

1893-1983

Spanish

Unknown

Oil on burlap

Unframed: 51 × 77 x 5/16 inches (129.5 × 195.6 x 0.8 cm) Framed: 52 3/8 × 78 1/16 × 2 1/2 inches (133 × 198.3 × 6.4 cm)

Paintings

European Modern Art to 1970

Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry

66.66

Restricted

Markings

Signed, center: Miro

Inscribed, titled, verso, upper left: JOAN MIRO | auto-portrait II | IV-938. Upper right: HAUT

Provenance

(Pierre Matisse Gallery, dealer, New York, New York, USA);
(E.V. Thaw and Co., Inc., dealer, New York, New York, USA);
Stanley N. Barbee (Beverly Hills, California, USA).
1966, G. David Thompson, Parke-Bernet Sale, 23-24 March 1966;
1966, purchased by W. Hawkins Ferry from Parke-Bernet through J. L. Hudson Galleries;
1966-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Miro, Joan. "Réponse a une Enquête." Cahiers d'art, nos. 1-4 (1939): 73 (ill.).

Dupin, J. Joan Miro, Life and Work. New York, 1962, no. 490, p. 331 (ill.).

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, unpaginated, cat. 34 (ill.).

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 178. (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 51, no. 4, 1972, pp. 105-111, (ill.).

Rubin, W. Miro in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Greenwich, CT, 1973, p. 130, fig. 59.

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 226–227 (ill.).

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1987, pp. 10–11 (ill.), 14, 33, no. 35.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Joan Miró, Self Portrait II, 1938, oil on burlap. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry, 66.66.

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