Women and Bird in the Night, 1944

  • Joan Miró, Spanish, 1893-1983

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 15 × 18 inches (38.1 × 45.7 cm)
  • 22 1/2 × 25 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (57.2 × 65.4 × 6.4 cm)

Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry

61.48

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

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.