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Painting (Blue Star)
Artist	Joan Miró
Year	1927
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	115.5 cm × 89 cm (45.5 in × 35 in)
Location	Private collection

Painting (Blue Star) (French: Peinture (Étoile Bleue)) is an oil painting by the Spanish artist Joan Miró, from 1927. In June 2012, it sold at auction for £23.5 million, at Sotheby's London, setting a new record for the highest price paid for a painting by Miró.^[1]^[2]

References

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^ "Joan Miro painting smashes auction record". BBC News. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
^ "Sotheby's". 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2024.

v t e Joan Miró
Paintings	Portrait of Vincent Nubiola (1917) The Farm (1921–1922) The Tilled Field (1923–1924) The Harlequin's Carnival (1924–1925) The Birth of the World (1925) Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) Painting (Blue Star) (1927) Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement (1935) Still Life with Old Shoe (1937) Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman (1941) Women and Birds (1963) Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) (1966–1973) May 1968 (1968–1973) Hands Flying off Toward the Constellations (1974) The Hope of a Condemned Man (1974)
Series	Head of a Catalan Peasant (1924–1925) Dutch Interiors (1928) Paintings on Masonite (1936) Metamorphosis (1935–1936) Constellations (1939–1941) Barcelona Series (1939–1944) Triptych Bleu I, II, III (1961) The Navigator's Hope (1968–1973)
Drawings	Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (1937)
Sculpture	Lunar Bird (1944–1967) Solar Bird (1966) The Caress of a Bird (1967) His Majesty the King (1974) Her Majesty the Queen (1974) His Highness the Prince (1974) Personnage Gothique, Oiseau-Eclair (1974–1977) Miró's Chicago (1981) Labyrinth (1961–1981) Dona i Ocell (1983)
Ceramics and textiles	Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon (1955–1958) The World Trade Center Tapestry (1974) Miró Wall (1979) Tapestry of the Fundació (1979)
Murals	The Reaper (1938) Personnages Oiseaux (1972–1978)
Family and colleagues	María Dolores Miró (daughter) Joan Prats Josep Llorens i Artigas Josep Lluís Sert Joaquim Gomis Joan Gardy Artigas Josep Royo
Museums	Fundació Joan Miró Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca
Related	Fondation Maeght Miró otro Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape exhibition Mont-roig del Camp 4329 Miró

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