What finally precipitated Miró's move into the field of bronze sculpture was his collaboration with the ceramicist Llorens Artigas in Barcelona in the years 1944-6. In 1938 Miró said that it was only a lack of material facilities, notably a large enough studio, that prevented him from experimenting with sculpture, ceramics and printing (quoted in Ades 1985, p.21). Miró had made assemblages and constructions from 1929 but it was not until the late 1930s that he began to work in the traditional medium of moulded sculpture. T03401, which is cast in an edition of 8, is one of Miró's earliest bronze sculptures. p.19, as ‘Femme' Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1982-4, 1986, p.282 Miró Escultor, exh. Also repr: Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró Sculptures, Paris 1974, repr.
cat., Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich 1985, pp.21-33, repr. as ‘Femme' Dawn Ades, ‘Miró's Sculptures', in The Touch of Dreams: Joan Miró, Ceramics and Bronzes 1949-80, exh. 1985 (3, repr.) Lit: Richard Calvocoressi, ‘Miró's Sculptures', in Joan Miró, exh. 1981 (1, repr., as ‘Femme') The Touch of Dreams: Joan Miró, Ceramics and Bronzes 1949-80, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Oct.-Dec. in col., as ‘Femme', unspecified cast) Joan Miró, Waddington Galleries, Dec. 1974, (223, repr., as ‘Femme') ? Exposition Miró Sculptures, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Feb. p.59, as ‘Femme', unspecified cast) Joan Miró, Grand Palais, Paris, May-Oct.
In a continuing effort to pictorial research, he realized, by 1929, its construction, three-dimensional works made ​​with wood, iron, objects founded, cut and assembled to announce his sculptures.In 1940 he began work in ceramics, in Barcelona, with his friend Llorens Artigas (many vases and plates enamelled). Then he made his first sculptures in bronze and terra cotta. Exhibited in major museums, two foundations open to the public now bear his name.Bronze 186 x 264 x 224 (7 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 8 3/8) Incised inscription on underside ‘Miró 7/8' and in another hand ‘V GIMENO | FLINDIT | BARNA' Purchased from Waddington Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1982 Prov: Acquired from the artist by Galerie Maeght, Paris bt by Perls Gallery, New York 1974 by whom sold to Waddington Galleries 1981 Exh: ? Sculptures de Miró, Céramiques de Miró et Llorens Artigas, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, April-June 1973 (17, repr. By the early 20s, he shared this year between Paris and Mont-Roig, near Tarragona, and often very quickly the Surrealist group. From 1912 to 1915,he enrolled in art school anti-academic Francesc Gali and devoted himself entirely to painting. Joan Miró was born Apin Barcelona. He died Decemat Calamayor near Palma de Mallorca. A major figure of twentieth century art, Joan Miro assert throughout his life an absolute freedom avoiding any a - Cubist, Surrealist, Abstract - that could lock him up. For six decades, the Catalan artist author of a language of signs of great wealth, painter and poet, engraver prolific, sculptor, ceramicist, illustrator and designer of sets and costumes for stage, will invent his world.At 14, he studied at the Art School of Llotja.
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