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

Lithography by Joan Miró (*)
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 plate.
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
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore it is in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed 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 of Francesc Galí and met the Fauves and the Cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which shaped 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 region, would be the counterpoint to the intellectual upheaval 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 exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism.
The impulse 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 workspace, 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.
Rooted first in the Mont-roig landscape and later in Mallorca, it would prove decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the surrounding natural environment would underpin some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró fled from academicism, in constant search of a global and pure body of work not tied to any particular movement. Content in 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 surrounding 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 the artist and the author. Miró’s brilliantly spontaneous and amorphous images, drawn directly on stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive brio of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.