Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul - lithographic licensed print 2003 - 60x45 *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.
Published by Maeght Éditeur in 2004.
Made on high‑weight cotton Vellum paper.
Signed on the plate.
Editor’s seal and the Miró Estate 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 in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. Shipping will be with a trackable certificate.

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 attended the La Llotja academy contrary to his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional manner. Later he studied at the Escola d’Art of Francesc Galí and came to know 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 comarca, would counterbalance the intellectual turbulence he lived in Paris, where he moved in the twenties with the surrealist poets and the most creative artists of his time. There he met 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 workspace, 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 determinative in his work. The connection to the land and the interest in everyday objects and in the natural environment would be the backdrop of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled academicism, in search of a global and pure creation not attributed to 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 surrounding him. This contrast of forces led 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 the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Éditeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors‑texte. (*) Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, where he grew up and began his artistic studies. He attended the La Llotja academy contrary to his parents’ wishes, who wanted him to work in a more traditional manner. Later he studied at the Escola d’Art of Francesc Galí and came to know 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 comarca, would counterbalance 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 met 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 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 workspace, 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 decisive in his work. The bond with the land and the interest in everyday objects and in the natural surroundings would form the backdrop of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled academicism, in constant search of a global and pure work, not adherent to any predetermined movement. Contained in the forms and in 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 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 the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive vigor of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was produced by Maeght Éditeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte. .