Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul

Lithograph by Joan Miró (*)
This work reproduces one of the illustrations originally created by Miró to illustrate the book of poems “Parler Seul” (**) (Speak Only), written by Tristan Tzara in 1947.
Edited by Maeght Éditeur in 2004.
Made on 100% cotton vellum paper of high grammage.
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and the Miró Estate seal on the reverse side of the sheet.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 60 x 45 cm
- Image dimensions: 42 x 33 cm
- Year: 2004
- Edition: 1000 copies
- References: Cramer 17. Rauch 165
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. Shipping will be tracked with a certified number.

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, where he grew up and began his artistic studies. He attended the La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional manner. Later he studied at the Escola d’Art de Francesc Galí and met the Fauves and the Cubists. His emotional landscapes, which shaped him as a person and as an artist, are essentially Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca and later New York and Japan. Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp comarca, would counterbalance the intellectual agitation in Paris, where he moved in the twenties with surrealist poets and the most creative artists of his time. There he came to know Arp, Magritte, Brancusi and Giacometti and exhibited with Dalí, Tanguy, Meret Oppenheim and Max Ernst in several Dada and Surrealist shows.
The stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovers in New York in the forties. Later, in 1956, in the midst of World War II, Joan Miró will leave his exile in France and settle in Palma de Mallorca, a refuge and work space, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert designed the studio he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramic work, until his death in 1983.
Rooted first in Mont-roig and then in Mallorca would be determinative in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the surrounding natural environment would underlie some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure body of work, not affiliated with any particular movement. Content in the forms and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic act that Joan Miró shows his rebellion and a great sensitivity to the political and social events that surround him. This clash of forces leads him to create a unique and highly personal language that places him among the most influential artists of the 20th century.

(**) “Parler Seul” represents a particularly effective collaboration between artist and author. Miró’s brilliantly spontaneous and amorphous images, drawn directly on the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Éditeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-text.
(*) Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, where he grew up and began his artistic studies. He attended the La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional manner. Later he studied at the Escola d’Art de Francesc Galí and met the Fauves and the Cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which shaped him as a person and an artist, are essentially Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca and later New York and Japan. Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp comarca, would counterbalance the intellectual agitation in Paris, where he moved in the twenties with surrealist poets and the most creative artists of his time. There he came to know Arp, Magritte, Brancusi and Giacometti and exhibited with Dalí, Tanguy, Meret Oppenheim and Max Ernst in several Dada and Surrealist exhibitions.
The stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovered in New York in the forties. Later, in 1956, in the midst of World War II, Joan Miró would leave his exile in France and settle in Palma de Mallorca, a refuge and work space, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the studio he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramics, until his death in 1983.
Rooted first in Mont-roig and then in Mallorca would be determinative in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural surroundings would underpin some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure body of work, not affiliated with any movement. Content in form and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic act that Joan Miró shows his rebellion and a great sensitivity to the political and social events around him. This clash of forces leads him to create a unique and highly personal language that places him among the most influential artists of the 20th century.

(**) “Parler Seul” represents a particularly effective collaboration between artist and author. Miró’s brilliantly spontaneous and amorphous images, drawn directly on the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive verve of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Éditeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-text.