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for the mural, but it has since been sold to establish a fund to support the museum's acquisitions and any repairs needed to the mural. The entire mural was originally assembled by an artisan at
Ateliers Loire using Miró's maquette as a guide. Fabricated under Miró's personal direction and completed
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is the foundation for the 28 ft by 52 ft (8.53 m x 15.85 m) mural, composed of one million pieces of marble and
Venetian glass mounted on specially treated wood, attached to the concrete wall on an aluminum grid. The work was a gift of the artist. Donor groups paid for its
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The glass mosaic was a first for Miró, and although he hoped to create others, he died before achieving this goal. Intending to come to the dedication of the mural in 1978, he fell at his studio in
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Miró's mural as it appears installed on the façade of the Ulrich Museum, Wichita State
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119:Description
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769:Colleagues
750:The Reaper
618:Solar Bird
610:Lunar Bird
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