Photos: Carlos A. Schwartz – Efraín Pintos

Mujer (Woman)

Author
Joan Miró
Edition
I Exhibition (1973-74)
Year
1972
Further information
Loaned by the Maeght Gallery in Paris, returned after the exhibition.
Material
Bronze

“From the Maeght Gallery, Paris, two major works were on display: a monumental “stabile-mobile” (1970), by Alexander Calder, in his great playful line, and “Woman”, a bronze piece from 1972, by Joan Miró, a surreal work of found objects, using the drum and the snail as a torso and head of supposed expressive exchange to configure a reality of oneiric origin.”

Westerdahl, E. (1973). La 1ª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en la calle, en Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, ISSN 1133-8857, Nº. 99. Número dedicado a los parques naturales, 47-50.

“Miró, whose very recent work Woman (1972) was exhibited, is, on the other hand, a characteristically surrealist exponent who has become engrossed in the suggestive, random and poetic beauty of the found object, capable of all the fantasies and recreations possible in an unmistakable oneiric world.”

Hernández Perera, J. (1996). Dos décadas de Esculturas en la Calle. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 25-54). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6

“The Maeght Gallery in Paris lent two magnificent pieces, an Estabile-Móbile by Alexander Calder, which for some time brightened up the Ramblas with the mobility of its precarious balance, and an early bronze sculpture by Joan Miró: Woman (1972). When the time came for it to be returned, and at the behest of the Cultural Commission, Miró agreed to replace the first piece with a copy of Femme Bouteille (1972)”

Pérez Reyes, C. (1996). Reflexión sobre lo visto y lo vivido. En A. Carnero, D. Duque, & C. Schwartz, Iª Exposición Internacional de Escultura en La Calle (págs. 65-76). Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. Área de Cultura. ISBN: 84-87340-63-6