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.
Published by Maeght Editeur in 2004.
Made on high-gauge cotton vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Imprint of the publisher and of the Miró Estate 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 preserved in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard parcel. The shipment will be shipped with a tracking number.

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 went to the 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 met the Fauves and the Cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which would form him as a person and 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 unrest 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 discovers 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.
Rooted in the landscape of Mont-roig first and of Mallorca afterward, it was decisive in his work. The bond with the earth and the interest in everyday objects and the surrounding natural environment would form the background of some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró fled academicism, pursuing a constant search for a global and pure work, not attached to any particular movement. Content in the forms and in 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 clash of forces would 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 handled by Maeght Editeur and consists of 72 original Miró lithographs, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte."