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Nocturne
1935
Joan Miró
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Nocturne, 1935. Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983). Oil on copper; framed: 62.2 x 48.8 x 5.1 cm (24 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 2 in.); unframed: 42 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1978.61 © 2006 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Spanish artist Miró was part of the Surrealist movement. He created paintings with the ambiguity of dreams whose meaning is just beyond one's grasp. What do you imagine is the meaning behind this painting?
- Maker/Artist
- Miró, Joan
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on copper
- Dimensions
- Framed: 62.2 x 48.8 x 5.1 cm (24 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 2 in.); Unframed: 42 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed on back: "Joan Miró / "Nocturne" / 9/11-16/11/35"
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1978.61
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Joan Miró, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939), Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí. Miró, Dalí," Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/15/2006 - 6/3/2007, cat. no. 7:53, p. 374, repr. fig. 3, 374., "Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937," New York: Museum of Modern Art, 11/2/2008 - 1/12/2009., Tate Modern, London (4/14/2011 - 9/11/2011), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (10/13/2011 - 3/25/2012), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (5/6/2012 - 8/12/2012): "Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape", ex. cat. no. 49, p. 81.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
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