Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Pochette Toilée du portfolio - Gravures pour une exposition (vendu sans prix de réserve)

Monumental cover of the portfolio "Gravures pour une exposition" created in 1973 by the Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miró. Lithograph on illustrated canvas featuring Miró's drawings, originally containing lithographs by the painter for a luxury edition issued for his 1973 exhibition in France.

Title: Illustrated Exhibition Folder

Artist: Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Technique: Lithography on canvas. (Complete folder without the lithographs inside)

Style: Surrealism

Signature: unsigned

Print run: 75 copies
Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer Books 174 (C. BKS. 174) (Folder only)

Format: 65x92 cm / In-plano

Condition: Good condition. Small tears and wear on the corners

"Gravures pour une exposition" (1973) by Joan Miró is an in-plano portfolio limited to 75 copies. Created for Miró's exhibition at the Maeght gallery in 1973.

Joan Miró, born in Barcelona in 1893 and died in Palma de Mallorca in 1983, is a monumental Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist, considered one of the greatest representatives of the Surrealist movement. Marked by his native Catalonia and influenced by Fauvism and Cubism, he settled in Paris in the 1920s where he befriended André Breton. Rejecting the constraints of traditional painting, he began a true visual revolution aiming to “kill the conventional painting.” He rapidly developed a unique and deeply personal dreamlike universe, structured by a language of enigmatic and poetic signs: constellations, stars, moons, women, birds and biomorphic shapes float freely across his canvases. His works, characterized by the use of vivid primary colors like blue, red, and yellow applied in flat planes, sometimes recall the spontaneity and purity of children’s drawings while concealing great esoteric depth and a spiritual dimension. Refusing the label of purely abstract painter, he asserts that each symbol derives from his intimate perception of reality, dreams, and the subconscious. Working tirelessly until his last days, Miró diversified his media after World War II by creating monumental sculptures for public spaces, ceramics, and vibrant tapestries. Today, major institutions such as the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona and the Centre Pompidou in Paris celebrate this free spirit who profoundly shaped 20th-century modern art.