Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul

Joan Miró Lithograph (*)
This work reproduces one of the illustrations originally created by Miró to accompany 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 grammage.
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and Miró Estate 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 work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard parcel. 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 the La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional way. 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 region, would be the counterpoint to the intellectual agitation he lived 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 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 workspace, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the workshop he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramics, until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the Mont-roig landscape first and then in Mallorca, it would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and in the natural surroundings would be the backdrop for some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled academicism, in constant search of a global and pure oeuvre, not affiliated with any particular movement. Content in form and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic fact that Joan Miró shows his rebelliousness and a great sensitivity to the political and social events that surround him. This clash of forces would lead 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 stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive spark 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 the La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional way. 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 region, would be the counterpoint to the intellectual agitation he lived 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 impulse 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 workspace, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the workshop he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramics, until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the Mont-roig landscape first and then in Mallorca later, it would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural surrounding would be the backdrop for some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled scholasticism, in constant search of a global and pure oeuvre, not attached to any particular movement. Content in forms and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic act where Joan Miró shows his rebellion and a great sensitivity to the political and social events 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 spark 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.