Femme (Woman)
About this artwork
Although Miró is perhaps best known as a painter, he also made a remarkable body of sculptures. Ten feet in height, this large sculpture is based on a perfume bottle. With the addition of spindly arms and a massive leaf shape (Miró’s shorthand for the female sex) the artist has transformed it into a woman. The spray nozzle at the top now reads as an eye. Miró’s works are witty and playful and have an extraordinary lightness of touch and count as some of the most impressive monumental sculptures of the twentieth century.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Femme (Woman)
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date created:1970
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materials:Bronze
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measurements:315.00 x 250.00 x 110.00 cm
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credit line:Long loan in 2013
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accession number:GML 2010
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Miró was born in Barcelona and moved to Paris in 1920. His early work combined miniaturist detail with a cubist fragmentation of space. In Paris he abandoned this style and began to paint an imaginary world full of strange, insect-like figures and forms, which seemed to float in space. This...