Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul

Joan Miró Lithograph (*)
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 Editeur in 2004.
Made on 100% cotton vellum paper of high weight.
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and the Miró Succession seal on the verso 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 artwork will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be sent with tracking.

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 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 of 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 be the counterpoint to the intellectual turmoil he experienced in Paris, where he moved in the twenties among 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 exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism.
The stimulus of abstract expressionism was discovered in New York in the forties. Later, in 1956, in the midst of World War II, Joan Miró would leave exile in France and settle in Palma de Mallorca, a space of refuge and work, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the workshop he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramic work, until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the landscape of Mont-roig first and Mallorca afterward, these origins would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment would form the background of some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró fled academicism, in search of a global and pure work, not affiliated with any particular movement. Contained in forms and public manifestations, it is through the artistic act that Joan Miró shows his rebellion and a great sensitivity to the political and social happenings that surround him. This clash of forces would lead him to create a unique and highly personal language that places him as one of 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 stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte. (*) Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, where he grew up and began his artistic studies. He attended 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 of Francesc Galí and met the fauves and the cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which formed 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 be the counterpoint to the intellectual upheaval he experienced 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 exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism.
The impulse of abstract expressionism he discovers 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 designed the workshop he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramics until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the landscape of Mont-roig first and Mallorca later would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment would form the backdrop of some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró fled from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure work, not affiliated with any movement. Contained 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 surrounding him. This clash of forces would lead him to create a unique and highly personal language that places him as one of 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 stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.