Maternité (Maternity)
Artist: Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Location: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Date: 1924
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 92.1 x 73.1cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £100,000 (Total: £1,750,000; tax remission)
Vendor: Mayor Gallery
Review number: 3724 (1992)
Provenance:
Jacques Viot; Rene Gaffe; Roland Penrose; Lee Miller; Antony Penrose.
Description:
In Miro's irreverent image of motherhood, the mother's body is represented as a cone pierced by a circular hole beneath two crossed lines resembling a pair of scales. A tiny male figure gravitates towards her right breast, shown in profile as a sharp, aggressive instrument, while a minute female form clings to the left. The child is depicted as a parasitical creature, and work was influenced by Freudian ideas.
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