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

Joan Miró Lithograph (*)
This work reproduces one of the illustrations originally created by Miró for the poetry book “Parler Seul” (**) (Speaking Alone), written by Tristan Tzara in 1947.
Published by Maeght Editeur in 2004.
Printed on heavy-weight cotton Vellum paper.
Signed in the plate.
Publisher’s and Miró Estate stamps on the reverse of the sheet.
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

- Sheet 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 portfolio, so it remains in perfect condition).

The work will be handled with care and packed in a reinforced flat cardboard package. It will be shipped by registered mail with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work, with a full refund 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 art studies. He attended the La Llotja academy against his parents’ wishes, as they wanted him to pursue a more conventional career. He later studied at the Escola d'Art de Francesc Galí and became acquainted with the Fauves and the Cubists.
The emotional landscapes that shaped him as a person and artist were essentially Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca, and later New York and Japan. Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, would serve as a counterpoint to the intellectual ferment he experienced in Paris, where he moved in the 1920s and joined the surrealist poets and most creative artists of his time. There he came to know Arp, Magritte, Brancusi, and Giacometti, and exhibited alongside Dalí, Tanguy, Meret Oppenheim, and Max Ernst in several exhibitions on Dadaism and Surrealism.
He discovered the influence of Abstract Expressionism in New York in the 1940s. Later, in 1956, in the midst of the Second World War, 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 designed the studio he had always dreamed of. There he focused on sculpture and ceramics until his death in 1983.
His deep connection first to the landscape of Mont-roig and later to that of Mallorca would be decisive in his work. His bond with the land and his interest in everyday objects and the natural environment would inform some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró shunned academicism in his constant pursuit of a unified, pure body of work, belonging to no particular movement. Restrained in form and in his public statements, Joan Miró expressed his rebelliousness and great sensitivity to the political and social events around him through his art. This interplay of forces led him to create a unique and highly personal visual language that established him as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

(**) “Parler Seul” represents a particularly successful collaboration between artist and author. Miró’s brilliantly spontaneous, amorphous images, drawn directly on the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive energy of Tzara’s random verses.
The original edition was published by Maeght Editeur and comprises 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, of which 18 are hors-texte.