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Artist

Joan Miró

1893
Barcelona, Spanien

1983
Palma de Mallorca, Spanien

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 193 × 171.7 × 3.3 cm
Frame: 200 × 178 × 9 cm

Signature

Unbezeichnet

Accession Number

0131

Catalogue Raisonné

Dupin 366 / Dupin/Lelong-Mainaud 461

Acquisition year

1962

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of Joan Miró’s painting “Étoiles en des sexes d’escargot” after its creation in 1925. Before it entered the collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. by 1941 at the latest it was temporarily located in Galerie de Beaune in Paris. Pierre Matisse, owner of the Pierre Matisse Gallery, bought the painting “Étoiles en des sexes d’escargot” from Walter P. Chrysler Jr. in 1955 and sold it to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 13 years later.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “Étoiles en des sexes d’escargot,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions
  • Joan Miro Rétrospective, 3.7.-6.10.1990, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul
  • Joan Miró Centennial, 19.4.-29.8.1993, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
  • Art for Life's Sake, 24.3.-3.6.2000, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • La Révolution surréaliste/Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ..., 19.7.-23.11.2002, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Joan Miró 1917-1934. La Naissance du Monde, 2.3.-27.6.2004, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
  • Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
  • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
  • Alexander Calder - Avantgarde in Bewegung, 6.9.2013-11.1.2014, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Miró. Von der Erde zum Himmel, 11.9.2014-10.1.2015, Albertina, Wien
  • Miró. Malerei als Poesie / Miró. Painting as Poetry, 12.6.-26.9.2015, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz)
  • Miró. Malerei als Poesie / Miró. A Painter among Poets, 30.1.-24.5.2015, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
  • Marie Cuttoli Modern: Tapestry from Picasso to Le Corbusier, 22.2.-22.8.2020, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (PA), USA
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