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Joan MiróL'enfance d'Ubu (Childhood of Ubu), 19751975
1975
About the Item
L'enfance d'Ubu is one of three illustrated books inspired by the French playwright Alfred Jarry's (1873-1907) plays Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu, and Ubu Enchaîné. As is seen in this illustration, depicting Ubu's adolescence, Ubu is having fun playing with bubbles. "Notorious for his infantile engagement with the world," Jane Taylor (2007) wrote in Ubu and the Truth Commission, Ubu is unmistakably smitten in this fantastic transformation into Miró's charming world.
Created in 1975, this work is out of an album of 24 prints under the same title. Hand-signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right margin, this piece is annotated ‘HC’ (hors commerce) in pencil in the lower left with the accompanying hors commerce Roman edition of 20 written next to it. A total edition of 140 copies printed on Arches wove or japan nacré exists, comprising a signed and numbered edition of 120, in addition to our work from 20 hors commerce copies, numbered from I to XX. Printed by Mourlot, Paris, the album was published by Tériade Editeur, also in Paris.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Miro Childhood of Ubu (L'enfance d'Ubu ), 1975 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoice accompanying the final sale of the work).
1. Maeght Editeur. Joan Miró: Lithographs, Vol. V 1972-1975. Paris: Maeght Editeur. Listed and illustrated as catalogue no. 999.
2. Cramer, Patrick. Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: catalogue raisonné. Geneva: Patrick Cramer, Publisher, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue no. 204 on pp. 506-7.
About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Miro Childhood of Ubu (L'enfance d'Ubu ), 1975 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.
- Creator:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 18.88 in (47.96 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palo Alto, CA
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Joan Miró
With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.
Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work.
The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. I’m heading in new directions.”
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