The table (still life with rabbits)
| The table (still life with rabbits) |
|---|
| Joan Miró , 1920 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 130 × 110 cm |
| Gustav Zumsteg Collection, Zurich
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The table (still life with rabbits) , synonymous with the original title in French : La table (Nature morte au lapin) , is a painting from Joan Miró's early work , which he painted in Catalonia in 1920 shortly before he moved to Paris .
background
After a first stay in Paris in March 1920, during which he became friends with Pablo Picasso , Miró painted a series of still lifes such as The Shoe on the Table, The Wheat Grain, The Carbide Lamp and The The following summer in Montroig after several landscapes and the nude with a mirror Table (still life with rabbits) , "whereby the surface depicted on the canvas and all objects standing on it are depicted without depth and in this way the entire picture is transformed into a cohesive, decorative surface."
description
In contrast to this, the painting shows animals such as the rabbit, a rooster and a fish as well as peppers, onions and grape leaves on a table painted cubistically . Rabbits and chickens seem alive, although they were certainly intended for eating. The table top, which appears to be tilting forward, appears almost parallel to the screen, almost in top view. In the still life with rabbits , the color is deliberately sacrificed to the drawing, wrote Jacques Dupin in his Miró biography. In Der Tisch (still life with rabbits) and in the subsequent work The Farm (1921), Miró created a composition that appears as an appreciation of simple rural rural life.
Provenance
Acquired at the Pierre Loeb gallery in Paris , the painting ended up in the Gustav Zumsteg collection in Zurich .
literature
- Janis Mink: Miró . Cologne, bags. 1993
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nathalia Brodskaya: Surrealism . P. 136
- ↑ Miró: Early Works ( Memento from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wieland Schmied: The Cool Look: Realism of the Twenties in Europe and America Cover Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany). Prestel Art Gallery, 2001
- ↑ Hans Jörg Wüger: Parts and fragments under different holistic aspects in the fine arts . Juris Verlag 1969
- ^ Jacques Dupin, Joan Miró: Joan Miró: Life and Work . Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1961
- ↑ Verena Wenz: The symbolic imagery of Joan Miró. Life and personality of the artist in the years 1983-1941 . 2008
- ↑ Voices of the Time ;: Catholic monthly for the spiritual life of the present. 1984
- ↑ Art treasures in Switzerland: Hundreds of masterpieces of painting, sculpture and applied arts in public, ecclesiastical and private collections in Switzerland , selected and commented on by Manuel Gasser, Willy Rotzler, Christoph Bernoulli. Zurich: Manesse, 1964
