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Joan MiróMaravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el jardín de Miró, 1975, (VI/XV)1975
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Joan Miró produced this original color lithograph especially for Rafael Alberti's text 'Maravillas con Variaciones Acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró' (Wonders with Acrostic Variations in Miró's Garden), being one of twenty-two lithographs in the illustrative series. This particular example is even more rare, as it is numbered VI/XV from the hand-signed portfolio on Rives paper (aside from the edition of 75 on Arches, the book edition of 315 and the further edition of 1500).
The prints that Miró designed for books and publications should be understood as part of a long tradition, as artists have been doing so since the advent of printmaking techniques. Albrecht Dürer, for example, made multiple illustrations for the Bible in the fifteenth century, as did the majority of his contemporary printmakers. In the modern period, artists ranging from Wassily Kandinsky to Thomas Hart Benton have taken their hand to the book as a medium. Even more, many of the most celebrated images by artists like Winslow Homer were printed for illustrated journals — and only a few examples survive today because of the perceived disposability of the medium during the 19th century. The images Miró made for the catalogs of his own body of work and career offer an insight into how the artist understood his own biography and place in history. They are self-aware and carry with them the Surrealism of his early career, but also the sophistication and refinement of an artist who had been exploring and experimenting for decades.
Original lithograph produced especially for: Rafael Alberti, Maravillas con Variaciones Acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró, Ediciones Polígrafa, S.A., Barcelona, 1975. Published in a separate portfolio of XV on Rives paper.
19.88 x 28.5 inches, artwork
31.38 x 40 inches, frame
Overall excellent condition
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a bespoke closed-corner 24-karat gold gilded moulding with reverse-ogee profile and semi-distressed finish.
Ref: Mourlot 1055.
- Creator:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 31.38 in (79.71 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
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- Framing:Frame IncludedFraming Options Available
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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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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