Female Nude

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Female Nude

1926

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)

In this painting Joan Miró translates the human body into a collection of disparate objects connected by nothing but a cross axis of dashed lines. The head is an egg. An apple and turnip (or perhaps a radish) stand in for breasts. The torso takes the form of a fish, and a leaf serves as a displaced symbol of genitals. To Miró these open-ended and often arbitrary analogies created a type of visual poetry.

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Object Details

Title:

Female Nude

Date:

1926

Artist:

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

36 3/8 x 29 inches (92.4 x 73.7 cm) Framed: 39 x 31 5/8 x 2 5/16 inches (99.1 x 80.3 x 5.9 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-143

Geography:

Made in Montroig, Tarragona, Spain, Europe

Provenance

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