Joan Miró (1893-1983), d'après - Parler Seul - lithographic licensed print 2004 *COA*

Joan Miró Lithography (*)
This work reproduces one of the illustrations originally created by Miró to illustrate the poetry book “Parler Seul” (**) (Speak Only), written by Tristan Tzara in 1947.
Published by Maeght Editeur in 2004.
Made on high-gauge cotton vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and Miró Estate seal on the reverse 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
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been stored in a professional art folder, therefore in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. Shipping will be by trackable certified mail.

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 of Francesc Galí and met the Fauves and the Cubists. His emotional landscapes, which would shape 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 be the counterpoint to the intellectual agitation he experienced in Paris, where he moved in the twenties with the 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 workshop space, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert designed the studio 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 for his work. The bond with the earth 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 work, not affiliated with any fixed movement. Content in the forms and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic fact that 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 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 vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Editeur and comprises 72 original Miró lithographs, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.