THE COLLECTION
Still Life with Old Shoe
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Paris, January 24-May 29, 1937. Oil on canvas, 32 x 46" (81.3 x 116.8 cm). Gift of James Thrall Soby. © 2010 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
1094.1969
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927—1937
November 2, 2008 – January 12, 2009
Miró created Still Life with Old Shoe in Paris over a four–month period of intense concentration, working from life for the first time in many years. The painting eschews simple categorization. It is both a still life and a landscape: the irregular back edge of the tabletop can be read as a horizon line. The objects are not to scale, and they are isolated in discrete cells, creating a formal rupture that calls to mind Miró’s work in collage. The color is acidic, highly saturated, and dissonant. For Miró this painting captured a "profound and fascinating reality."
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