Harvard Art Museums > 1954.91: Painting Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Painting (Joan Miró) , 1954.91,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/213925. Identification and Creation Object Number 1954.91 People Joan Miró, Spanish (Barcelona, Spain 1893 - 1983 Palma de Mallorca, Spain) Title Painting Other Titles Alternate Title: The Lasso Alternate Title: Circus Horse Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1927 Culture Spanish Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/213925 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 129.54 x 96.52 cm (51 x 38 in.) frame: 137.5 × 105.1 × 5.7 cm (54 1/8 × 41 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.r.: Miro, Signed Date: 1927 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Rene Gaffé, Brussels, (? - 1938?), sold ; Roland Penrose, London. [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis Missouri, 1947, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Copyright © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Accession Year 1954 Object Number 1954.91 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History James Johnson Sweeney, Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1941), p. 36, reproduced p. 44 Herbert Read, The Spanish Masters of Twentieth Century Painting, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA, 1948), p. 92, reproduced p. 100 Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 59-60, fig. 14b, ill. (plate section, b/w) Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Life and Work, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1963), no. 202, p. 517; reproduced in b/w p. 221 William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1968), p. 163, plate 137; text, p. 160 Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language, exh. cat., Washington University Gallery of Art (St. Louis, MO, 1980), text p. 25; listed p. 66, reproduced fig. 16 Glenn Ligon, Blue Black, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2017), p. 37, ill. (color) Exhibition History Joan Miró, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 05/06/1937 - 06/02/1937 Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1941 - 11/30/1941 Joan Miró, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 03/11/1947 - 04/05/1947 The Spanish Masters of Twentieth Century Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 09/14/1948 - 10/17/1948; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 10/26/1948 - 11/28/1948 Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957 Joan Miró: The Development of a Sign Language, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 03/19/1980 - 04/27/1980 Joan Miró, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/13/1993 - 01/18/1994 Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 06/09/2017 - 10/07/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu