Baigneuse
automne 1924
Baigneuse
automne 1924
In Baigneuse, Miró paints the deep blue of the sea, of the night sky, which floods across the whole canvas, the latter still emerging here and there. This background, Miró’s ‘colour of dreams,’ becomes the subject of the painting. Gently resting upon it, like a counterpoint, are drawings, signs hardly sketched but inscribed: a boat, a wave, a fish, a horizon line, three little red dots – the poetic signs of an aquatic world of dream. Made in the year that the Surrealist Manifesto was published, this was one of the first paintings to be bought by the writer Michel Leiris, who saw in it a parallel to his own writing.
Domain | Peinture |
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Techniques | Huile sur toile |
Dimensions | 72,5 x 92 cm |
Acquisition | Donation Louise et Michel Leiris, 1984 |
Inventory no. | AM 1984-618 |
Detailed description
Artist |
Joan Miró
(1893, Espagne - 1983, Espagne) |
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Main title | Baigneuse |
Creation date | automne 1924 |
Place of production | oeuvre peinte à Montroig |
Domain | Peinture |
Techniques | Huile sur toile |
Dimensions | 72,5 x 92 cm |
Inscriptions | S.D.B.G. à la peinture verte : Miró/1924. |
Acquisition | Donation Louise et Michel Leiris, 1984 |
Collection area | Arts Plastiques - Moderne |
Inventory no. | AM 1984-618 |