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 book of poems “Parler Seul” (**) (Speak Only), written by Tristan Tzara in 1947.
Edited by Maeght Éditeur in 2004.
Produced on high-grade cotton vellum paper (250 g).
Signed on the plate.
Publisher’s seal and 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 stored 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 certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the artwork 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 manner. Later he studied at the Escola d’Art de Francesc Galí and met the Fauves and the Cubists. His emotional landscapes, which would shape 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 counterpart to the intellectual turmoil 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 shows on Dadaism and Surrealism.
The impulse of Abstract Expressionism he discovered in New York in the 1940s. Later, in 1956, during the midst of World War II, Joan Miró left his exile in France and settled in Palma de Mallorca, a refuge and workspace, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert designed the studio he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramic work, until his death in 1983.
Rooted in the Mont-roig landscape first and then in Mallorca, this would be decisive in his work. The bond with the land and his interest in everyday objects and the surrounding natural environment would form the backdrop of some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró escaped academicism, pursuing a constant search for a universal and pure body of work not affiliated with any particular movement. Content 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 led 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 the artist and the 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 produced by Maeght Éditeur and consists of 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.