Joan Miró (after) - Homenatge a Joan Prats (New York) ** ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT 1971 **

Original lithographic poster by the Spanish artist Joan Miró.
This work was published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition "Homenatge a Joan Prats" in Barcelona, in May 1972.
Edited by Polígrafa Barcelona, under the supervision of Joan Miró.
Limited edition of 1000 units.

Specifications

Dimensions: 84 x 56 cm
Year: 1971
Condition: Very Good (It shows slight general yellowing due to its age. However, this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, so it is kept in very good condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport 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, but his emotional landscapes, which shaped him as a person and artist, are essentially Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca, and later New York and Japan. Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, will be the counterpoint to the intellectual agitation he experienced in Paris in the 1920s alongside surrealist poets, and to the stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovered in New York in the 1940s. Later, during 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 designed the studio he had always dreamed of.
The attachment to the landscape of Mont-roig first and Mallorca later will be decisive in his work. The connection with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment will be the backdrop of some of his technical and formal investigations. Miró shuns academicism, constantly seeking a global and pure work, not affiliated with any particular movement. Rooted in forms and 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 will lead him to create a unique and highly personal language that positions him as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

(**) Poster for the exhibition “Homenatge a Joan Prats”. Galerie Dreiseitel (Cologne).
Poster designed by Joan Miró for the presentation of the portfolio of 15 lithographs entitled "Homage to Joan Prats," published by Ediciones Polígrafa, S.A. and printed at the La Polígrafa, S.A. workshops in Barcelona. The first exhibition of this series took place at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona between September 28 and October 1971.
The poster image was reused in 1972 and 1973 to distribute the same lithographic series in various galleries and museums in Spain and abroad.