Signed, lower right: Miro
Inscribed, on stretcher: femmes et oiseau dans la nuit Inscribed, on verso: 1944
Oil on canvas
Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry
61.48
Signed, lower right: Miro
Inscribed, on stretcher: femmes et oiseau dans la nuit Inscribed, on verso: 1944
Collection of Pierre Matisse. W. Hawkins Ferry
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Alexander Calder, Joan Miro. Exh. cat., Perls Gallery. New York, 1961, no. 21. "Femmes et Oiseau dans la Nuit." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 40, nos. 3/4 (1960–1961): 66–67, pp. 66–67 (ill.). The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 14. The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, unpaginated, cat. 33 (ill.). Museum Director's Choice, Project Outreach Travel Exhibition. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 32-33 (ill.). Messer, Thomas A. "Miro Twice Removed." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 51, no. 4 (1972): 105–111, p. 105. The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1987, pp. 11, 33, 50, no. 36 (ill.). Picasso et Sua Epocha: Donazioni a Musei Americani. Exh. cat., Fonazione Memmo. Rome, 2004, p. 145 (ill.).
Joan Miró, Women and Bird in the Night, 1944, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry, 61.48.