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

Joan Miró Lithograph (*) After
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 2004.
Made on high‑grammage cotton Vellum paper.
Signed on the print.
Printer’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 it remains in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard package. Shipping will be insured with a tracking 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 experienced in Paris, where he moved in the twenties together 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 various exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism.
The stimulus of abstract expressionism was discovered in New York in the forties. Later, in 1956, during the midst of World War II, Joan Miró would leave his 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 ceramics, until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the landscape of Mont-roig first and Mallorca later, this would be determinant in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and in the natural environment would form the background of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure work, not affiliated with any particular movement. Contained in form and public manifestations, it is through the plastic fact that Joan Miró shows his rebelliousness and a great sensitivity to the political and social events surrounding 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 spark of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original Miró lithographs, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.