Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Parler Seul - Lithographic licensed print 2004 - 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.
Edition by Maeght Editeur in 2004.
Made on high-grade cotton vellum paper (250g).
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and 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 exhibited and has always been kept in a professional art folder, thus it remains in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. Shipping will be by trackable courier 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 attended 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 comarca, would be the counterpoint to the intellectual restlessness 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 stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovered in New York in the forties. Later, in 1956, during World War II, Joan Miró left his exile in France and settled in Palma de Mallorca, a place 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.
The rooting in Mont-roig’s landscape first and Mallorca’s landscape later would be decisive in his work. The bond with the earth and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment would form the backdrop of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró fled academicism, in search of a constant global and pure oeuvre, not attached to any particular movement. Contained in forms and in public manifestations is through the plastic fact 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 positions 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 formless images, drawn directly on the 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 Miró lithographs, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.