Joan Miró
A Night Scene
1936
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Joan Miró
A Night Scene
1936
Physical Qualities
Tempera with collage of printed papers and thin wood veneer over graphite, Sheet: 640 × 508 mm. (25 3/16 × 20 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.337
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1938; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1938; from Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY
"Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," The Baltimore Museum of Art, March 1950, cat. no. 80.
"Saidie A. May Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-November 22, 1972, p. 78.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, "European Drawings and Watercolors, 1914-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 19 February - 28 April 1985.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
"Saidie A. May Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, September 6-November 22, 1972, p. 78.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
BMA, "European Drawings and Watercolors, 1914-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 19 February - 28 April 1985.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, frontispiece, pp. 139, ill.
Inscribed: FACE: right of center, "Miró". BACK: signed and dated, "Miró [underlined] / 4/12/37"
