Moon bird (Miró)

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Moon bird in the courtyard of the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Moon bird ( Oiseau lunaire ) is a sculpture created in 1945 by Joan Miró in olive wood . The sculpture L'Oiseau solaire (Sun Bird) also exists from the same period , from which casts in various sizes were also made. The moon bird is considered to be the artist's oldest sculpture still preserved today. The original, measuring 30 × 24 × 17 centimeters, was sold to another private collector for US $ 5 million at the 2011 art and antiques fair The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) from a private collector who had owned it for four decades Collector sold. It had previously belonged to gallery owners Aimé Maeght and Dennis Hotz , London. The magazine Beaux Arts du Monde wrote that it was "biomorphic phenomena of archaic power and distant times that seem more original than their sleek, elegant successors from 1966".

A total of five bronze casts were made by Mondvogel in 1966/67 with the dimensions 234 × 210 × 150 cm. One is now in the courtyard of the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid , another at the Fondation Beyeler and in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC . Smaller variants were also created during this time.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miró's unique bird sculpture . Photograph of the original on findART.cc
  2. ↑ a b Un Miró, de 5 millones de dólares, vendido en la TEFAF fair . La Voz de Galicia, March 21, 2011
  3. ↑ Beaux Arts du Monde , Verlag "Art and Technology" 1987, Volume 57, Page 1409
  4. ^ Oiseau lunaire, 1966. Bronze, copy 5/5 , inscribed "Susse Frères Paris", Fondation Beyeler