Joan Miró
Personages Attracted by the Forms of a Mountain
1935
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Joan Miró
Personages Attracted by the Forms of a Mountain
1935
Physical Qualities
Tempera on Masonite, 13 x 19 3/4 in. (33 x 50.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.338
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1938-1951; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1938; from Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
"Joan Miro", Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1941, p. 80.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture", March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 81.
James Thrall Soby, "Joan Miro", Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1959, no. 63, p. 80, ill. p. 85.
"Arts Festival", Goucher College, Towson, Md., 1956.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 5-October 15, 1972, p. 78, ill. .
Carolyn Lanchner, "Joan Miró", Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, no. 136, p. 409, ill. p. 213.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection", March 31-June 20, 1999.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937", Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 2, 2008-January 12, 2009; plate 95, p. 236, ill. p. 194.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture", March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 81.
James Thrall Soby, "Joan Miro", Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1959, no. 63, p. 80, ill. p. 85.
"Arts Festival", Goucher College, Towson, Md., 1956.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 5-October 15, 1972, p. 78, ill. .
Carolyn Lanchner, "Joan Miró", Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 13, 1993-January 18, 1994, no. 136, p. 409, ill. p. 213.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection", March 31-June 20, 1999.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937", Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 2, 2008-January 12, 2009; plate 95, p. 236, ill. p. 194.
Clement Greenberg, "Miro," New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948, ill. p. 79.
Jacques Dupin, "Miro," London: Thames and Hudson, 1962, no. 422, ill. p. 533.
Jacques Dupin, "Joan Miró: catalogue raisonné: paintings," vol. 2, Paris: Daniel Lelong, Successió Miró,1999, no. 507, p. 141.
Anne Umland, "Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting/ 1927-1937," Museum of Modern Art: New York, 2008, p. 236, ill. p. 194.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Sotheby's London. Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, 19 June 2019. London: Sotheby's, 2019.
Inscribed: FACE: Left center, "Miro". VERSO: "2/2/1936"
