Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul - Lithographic licensed print 2004 *COA*

Joan Miró Lithograph (*)
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.
Edited by Maeght Editeur in the year 2004.
Made on high-density cotton vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Printer’s seal and 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 it is in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. The shipment will be tracked with a certification 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 went to 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 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 lived 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 Dadaist 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 working 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.
Anchoring in the landscape of Mont-roig first and then Mallorca afterward would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the surrounding natural environment would be the background of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró flees from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure body of work, not tied to any particular movement. Content in his forms and in his public manifestations, it is through the plastic act that Joan Miró shows his rebelliousness and a great sensitivity to the political and social events around him. This contrast of forces will 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 published by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.