Swallow / love

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Swallow / love
Joan Miró , 1933/34
Oil on canvas
199.3 x 247.6 cm
Museum of Modern Art , New York City

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Swallow / Love (also Hirondelle Amour , Catalan oreneta amor ) is a painting by Joan Miró , which was created between autumn 1933 and winter 1934.

background

Miró painted Schwalbe / Liebe in autumn / winter 1933/34 as a design for a tapestry. Over the winter of 1933/34, Miro worked on four tapestry templates for Marie Cuttoli, Personnage avec etoile, Hirondelle - Amour, Personnage rythmique and Escargot, femme, fleur, etoile . In doing so, he relied on poetic ideas; Alberto Giacometti , who was a close friend of Miró at the time, later said: "For me, Miró was the epitome of freedom - more airy, freer, lighter than anything I have ever seen before."

Miró had already experimented with pictorial poems in the mid-1920s; In Schwalbe / Liebe , figures and word elements are connected with intertwined lines. The words hirondelle and amour, inserted in cursive “stand against the blue background, as if they were written by an airplane or the flight movements of a swallow ,” wrote Janis Mink; "The free distribution of limbs and forms creates a feeling of letting go and openness, birds flying and free fall of one (or two) people."

According to William Rubin , Schwalbe / Liebe is Miró's masterpiece:

"No other single work contains so much of him, in such a successful balance."
This large painting is Miro's consummate masterpiece. No other single work contains so much of him, in such perfect equilibrium . "

Provenance

The painting was initially owned by Marie Cuttoli before it passed into the possession of Aimé Maeght in 1952 , who sold it to Nelson A. Rockefeller . He bequeathed it to the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1976 .

literature

  • Janis Mink: Miró . Cologne, bags. 1993

Individual evidence

  1. Jean-Louis Prat: Miró: the colors of poetry . Hatje Cantz, 2010, p. 38
  2. a b Janis Mink: Miró . Cologne, bags. 1993, p. 58 f.
  3. ^ William S. Rubin: Miro in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art . 1973, p. 64
  4. Swallow / Love at MoMA