1951.17: Study for "Mural Painting"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.17
- People
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Joan Miró, Spanish (Barcelona, Spain 1893 - 1983 Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
- Title
- Study for "Mural Painting"
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Study for the Harkness Commons Dining Room Mural (Harvard Law School)
Alternate Title: Study for Peinture Murale (The Harkness Commons Dining Room Mural) - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1950
- Culture
- Spanish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297452
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 26.5 x 66.8 cm (10 7/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Commissioned by the Harvard Corporation, 1950, transfer; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard Corporation
- Copyright
- © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.17
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
Exhibition History
- Gold Medal Exhibition of Mural Painting, Architectural League of New York, New York, 03/14/1952 - 04/04/1952
- Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
- The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
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