Joan Miró
Chiffres et constellations amoureux d’une femme (Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman)
June 12, 1941
Gouache and watercolor with traces of graphite on ivory wove paper, 18 1/8 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman (1953.338)
Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago /Art Resource, NY
Art © 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Alexander Calder, Constellation, 1943
Wood, wire and paint
33 x 36 x 14 inches
Courtesy Calder Foundation, New York
Photograph by Tom Powel Imaging
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Joan Miró
Femmes au bord du lac à la surface irisée par le passage d’un cygnet (Women at the Edge of the Lake Made Iridescent by the Passage of a Swan)
May 14, 1941
Gouache and oil wash on paper, 18 1/8 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm)
Private Collection
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Left to right:
Femmes au bord du lac à la surface irisée par le passage d’un cygne (Women at the Edge of the Lake Made Iridescent by the Passage of a Swan), 1941
Private Collection
L’Oiseau-migrateur (The Migratory Bird), 1941
Private Collection
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Left to right:
L’Oiseau-migrateur (The Migratory Bird), 1941
Private Collection
Chiffres et constellations amoureux d’une femme (Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman), 1941
The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman (1953.338)
Le Bel oiseau déchiffrant l'inconnu au couple d'amoureux (The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers), 1941
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (7.1945)
Le Crépuscule rose caresse le sexe des femmes et des oiseaux (The Pink Dusk Caresses the Sex of Women and Birds), 1941
Private Collection
Le Passage de l’oiseau divin (The Passage of the Divine Bird), 1941
Toledo Museum of Art; Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey (1996.21)
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Left to right:
Chiffres et constellations amoureux d’une femme (Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman), 1941
The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman (1953.338)
Le Bel oiseau déchiffrant l'inconnu au couple d'amoureux (The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers), 1941
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (7.1945)
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Le Lever du soleil (Sunrise), 1940
Toledo Museum of Art; Gift of Thomas T. Solley (1996.16)
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Left to right:
Femmes sur la plage (Women on the Beach), 1940
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 (1999.363.52)
Femme à la blonde aisselle coiffant sa chevelure à la lueur des étoiles (Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars), 1940
The Cleveland Museum of Art; Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art (1965.2)
L'Étoile matinale (Morning Star), 1940
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Gift of Pilar Juncosa de Miró
Personnage blessé (Wounded Figure), 1940
Private Collection
Femme et oiseaux (Woman and Birds), 1940
Private Collection
Femme dans la nuit (Woman in the Night), 1940
Collection Martin Z. Margulies
Danseuses acrobates (Acrobatic Dancers), 1940
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. The Philip L. Goodwin Collection, Gift of James L. Goodwin, Henry Sage Goodwin, and Richmond L. Brown.
Le Chant du rossignol à minuit et la pluie matinale (The Nightingale’s Song at Midnight and Morning Rain), 1940
Private Collection
Le 13 l’échelle a frôlé le firmament (On the 13th the Ladder Brushed the Firmament), 1940
Private Collection, Switzerland
Nocturne (Nocturne), 1940
Private Collection
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Le Bel oiseau déchiffrant l'inconnu au couple d'amoureux (The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers), 1941
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (7.1945)
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Nocturne (Nocturne), 1940
Private Collection
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
Left to right:
Femme à la blonde aisselle coiffant sa chevelure à la lueur des étoiles (Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars), 1940
The Cleveland Museum of Art; Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art (1965.2)
L'Étoile matinale (Morning Star), 1940
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Gift of Pilar Juncosa de Miró
Personnage blessé (Wounded Figure), 1940
Private Collection
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Installation view of Calder | Miró Constellations at Acquavella Galleries in collaboration with the Pace Gallery
from April 20 - May 26, 2017.
© 2017 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Miró Constellations through May 26th
Open Monday-Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm
Pace Gallery and Acquavella Galleries are pleased to announce Calder / Miró: Constellations, featuring the Constellations series of Alexander Calder and Joan Miró, respectively. The distinct yet complementary presentations illuminate the startling affinities between the two artists, who at the time the series were created, were separated by the Atlantic during World War II and unable to communicate. Presenting approximately 60 sculptures, paintings and works on paper in dialogue with one another, these shows highlight the varied formal, social and political concerns that informed the significant series—neither of which were actually named Constellations by the artists themselves.
Miró: Constellations will be on view from April 20 through May 26 at Acquavella Galleries, 18 East 79th Street, and Calder: Constellations will be on view from April 20 through June 30 at Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street. A joint opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 19 from 5:30 to 8 PM at both galleries.
