
Hand-signed and numbered Joan Miró "L'Oiseau Destructeur" etching and aquatint
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Joan MiróHand-signed and numbered Joan Miró "L'Oiseau Destructeur" etching and aquatint1969
1969
About the Item
- Creator:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
- Creation Year:1969
- Dimensions:Height: 36.25 in (92.08 cm)Width: 45.25 in (114.94 cm)
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- Condition:Not previously owned, but some small knicks and dents on frame corners and some tears in paper backing the frame (see detail images.).
- Gallery Location:Boca Raton, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU155428802381
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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