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 for the poetry book “Parler Seul” (**) (Speaking Alone), written by Tristan Tzara in 1947.
Published by Maeght Editeur in 2004.
Made on heavyweight cotton Vellum paper.
Signed in the plate.
Publisher’s and Succession Miró stamps on the reverse of the sheet.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

- Sheet 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 displayed and has always been stored in a professional art portfolio, so it remains in perfect condition).

The work will be handled with care and packed in reinforced flat cardboard packaging. It will be sent 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 traditional career. He later studied at the Escola d'Art de Francesc Galí, where he became acquainted with the Fauves and the Cubists.
His emotional landscapes, which would shape him as a person and an artist, were primarily 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 devoted to Dadaism and Surrealism.
He discovered the influence of Abstract Expressionism in New York in the 1940s. Later, in 1956, during 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 attachment first to the landscape of Mont-roig and later to that of Mallorca would prove decisive in his work. His connection to the land and his interest in everyday objects and the natural environment would underpin some of his technical and formal explorations. Miró rejected academicism in his constant pursuit of a comprehensive, pure body of work, aligned with no particular movement. Restrained in his forms and public appearances, Joan Miró expressed his rebelliousness and great sensitivity to the political and social events around him through his art. This tension between opposing forces led him to create a unique and highly personal 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 onto the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive verve of Tzara’s aleatory verses.
The original edition was published by Maeght Editeur and comprises 72 original lithographs by Miró, 49 of them in color, 18 of which are hors-texte.