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Joan MiróUntitled, 1961 (Album 19, M.250)1961
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Untitled (M.250) from the Album 19 suite is a lithograph on paper, image size 20 x 26.5 inches and framed in a contemporary, black wood frame, colors vibrant, initialed 'M.' lower right and annotated lower left.
Catalogues - Maeght vol. II (fr.), #250; Cramer #70
From the total edition of 90, numbered 42/75 (there were also 15 HC numbered I/XV - XV/XV).
Although widely associated with the Surrealist movement, Joan Miró never joined the renowned artist group that flourished out of Paris during the early twentieth century. His art was a reinvention of standard principles that fought against the canons of the day and in turn any bourgeois association with the high art of painting. Miró’s unconventional style produced a breadth of work, from ceramics sculptures to multiples, that highlighted his desire to work across mediums. During the aftermath of WWII, Miró reveled in the production of lithography. Playing with the combination of image and text, he created rhythmic sequences that according to the director of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Rosa Maria Malez, “abandoned the controlled execution of the fifties in favour of the gesture…a new form of brushstroke.” (1)
By the 1960’s Miro’s working relationship with various publishing houses lead to the production of numerous illustrated books that Album 19 is a product of. Like Picasso before him, Miró was seen to take a child-like approach to his art. As stated by the surrealist writer, Michel Leiris, “The game of constructing things, a wonderful game of childhood or adolescence, is found in an almost pure state in Miró’s lithographs...through changes or permutations of color, changes of background, changes of direction, etc.” (2)
Completed in 1961, Miró’s Album 19 is a perfect representation of this period in his artistic oeuvre.
(1) Rosa Maria Malet, “Preface,“ in Joan Miró The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, ed. Patrick Cramer (Geneva: Patrick Cramer, 1989), 11.
(2) Michel Leiris, “A New Look at Joan Miró,“ in Joan Miró Lithographs Volume I, ed. Fernand Mourlot(New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972), 13.
- Creator:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
- Creation Year:1961
- Dimensions:Height: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Width: 31.75 in (80.65 cm)
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- Condition:generally excellent condition with a light handling dent.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
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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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