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 2004.
Made on high-gram weight cotton vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and the 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
- References: Cramer 17. Rauch 165
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or displayed, 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 box. Shipping will be with tracking.

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in the event 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 La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional manner. Later he studied at the Escola d'Art de Francesc Galí and became acquainted with the Fauves and the Cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which would shape him as a person and 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 upheaval 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 space of refuge and work, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the studio he had always dreamt of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramic work, until his death in 1983.
Rooted first in Mont-roig and then in Mallorca, this connection to landscape would be decisive in his work. The bond with the earth and the interest in everyday objects and in the natural surroundings would form the backdrop to some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled academicism, pursuing a constant search for a global and pure body of work, not affiliated with any particular movement. Contained in the forms and in public manifestations, it is through the plastic act that Joan Miró shows his rebellion and a great sensitivity to the political and social events around him. This clash of forces would lead him to create a unique, 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 the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor 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.