**Joan Miró
1893-1983 (Spanish)

1893-1983 (Spanish)
Personnages, oiseau, etoiles, 1944
oil on canvas
h:14 w:75 cm.
signed, dated and titled on the reverse

Provenance: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Private collection, New England, acquired from the above.
Sale: Sotheby's New York, May 12, 1993, lot 313.
Private collection, acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Israel.

Literature: Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonne, Paintings, vol. III, Paris, 2001, no. 727, p.59 (color illustration).

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