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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Joan Miró, Soleil et Étincelles, Color Lithograph, 1960s, Framed
By Joan Miró
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Joan Miró, Soleil et Étincelles, 1960s Color lithography Work signed in print Work dimensions 58/74 The work is framed This lithograph appeared in the collection Derriére le Miroir ...
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Joan Miró, Agora I, Color Lithograph, 1971, Framed
By Joan Miró
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Joan Miró, Agora I, 1971 Color lithography Work signed by the artist Working dimensions 71/51 Framed work Lithographic poster for an exhibition of artists represented by Galeria Maeght at the Musée d'Art Moderne Strasbourg in 1971. Poster by Joan Miró, a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist. The surrealist master is one of the most important Spanish artists of the 20th century and one of the greatest artists of contemporary art. A picture is made of brushstrokes, just as a poem is made of words. - Joan Miro Miró's works are interpreted as belonging to surrealism, as an expression of a return to childhood and as sandboxes for the subconscious. The Miró style consists of vivid colors combined with simplified forms, reminiscent of drawings of a small child. Initially, Miró created in various fashionable styles, for example, Fauvist and Cubist. In 1920 he traveled to Paris several times, and a year later he settled there permanently. He met Pablo Picasso, Vasily Kandinsky and many other outstanding artists. In 1924 he joined the surrealists of André Breton's circle, but - despite the fact that he worked under their influence - he remained on the outskirts of this trend, maintaining the position of an outsider. Influenced by Surrealist poets and writers, he began to develop his own style: a map of weightless colored signs and poetic forms that evoke both the seemingly naive freshness of invention and the exuberant and baroque Catalan...
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Joan Miro Cover of Volume III of the “Journal De Gravure” Etching Framed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Joan Miro Cover of Volume III of the “Journal De Gravure” Etching Framed Miro, Joan - Journal d'un Gravure 1964-75 Etching in color on black ...
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Selection of Joan Miro Lithographs
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, French, circa 1960s. They are from the limited edition folio “Derriere le Miroir”, published by the legendary Galerie Maeght, circa 1960s. P...
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$1,950
H 26 in W 35.5 in D 1 in
Orientalist Gravure Scene of Turkish Women Dancing in the Harem, Luigi Crosio
By Luigi Crosio
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Orientalist Moorish gravure scene of Turkish women dancing in the harem. After Luigi Crosio (Italian, 1835-1916), Moorish Scene, "The Dancer" Luigi Crosio...
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Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. Only the lithograph in the center is available. The lithographs on the right and left have been sold. We purchased a gr...
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$3,500
H 13.75 in W 21.75 in D 1 in
Joan Miro Lithograph Titled "Miro Sculptor Japan, " Signed and Numbered
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
This is a Joan Miro lithograph. Titled: Miro Sculptor Japan. It was a print exclusively for Collector's Guild members. Signed in the stone. Numbered 2/1000 in pencil. Framed measures...
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Selection of Large Joan Miro Color Lithographs
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro large color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. We purchased a group of these color lithographs from the estate of a couple that l...
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$1,754
H 15.16 in W 18.31 in D 1.97 in
A framed 1948 lithographic plate from the portfolio “Ceramiques de Picasso”
By Albert Skira, Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
A framed lithographic plate from the 1948 Swedish, limited edition portfolio of only 200 “Ceramiques de Picasso” by Albert Skira, framed, with the die-cut, gloss coloured lithograph...
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Joan Miró Lithographs
By Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. We purchased a group of these color lithographs from the estate of a couple t...
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Joan Miró Lithographs
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, France, circa 1960s. We purchased a group of these color lithographs from the estate of a couple t...
Glass, Wood, Paper
Selection of Joan Miro Lithographs
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Joan Miro color lithographs, French, circa 1960s. They are from the limited edition folio “Derriere le Miroir”, published by the legendary Galerie Maeght, circa 1960s. P...
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H 14.97 in W 18.9 in D 0.4 in
Bertil Lundberg, Komposition, Etching, 1962, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Bertil Lundberg, Komposition, 1962 Etching Number 28/100 The work is signed by the artist, dated and individually numbered (pencil) Work dimensions 38/48 The work is framed Claus Be...
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H 11.82 in W 17.72 in D 0.4 in
Joan Miro etching aquatint series of 30 on Japanese Paper , 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in La xara, VC
The work in question is part of a series of 30 prints on Japanese paper number with out sign Provenance Paris around Broder Family publisher .last picture Explanation: Series of 3...
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Erte Framed Collector Plate "LE SOLEIL"
By Erté
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Stunning Erte (Russian 1892-1990) framed collector plate "LE SOLEIL". Framed in an ebony and gold motif. Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born French a...
Joan Miró, Composition, Color Lithograph, 1960s, Framed
By Joan Miró
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Joan Miró, Composition, 1960s Color lithography Work signed in print Work dimensions 42/57 The work is framed This lithograph appeared in the collection Derriére le Miroir 164/165. ...
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Original Joan Miró Framed Lithograph, Derriere le Miroir, 1956
By Joan Miró
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful original vintage framed abstract lithograph Published in issue No. 87-88-89 of Derriere le Miroir, June-July-August, 1956, th...
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H 31 in W 23 in D 1 in
Joan Miro Lithograph "Italia 1969" Pencil Signed Printed by SalaGaspar Barcelona
By Joan Miró
Located in Dallas, TX
Limited edition lithograph no.182 of 200 titled ITALIA 1969 by Joan Miro pencil signed on the paper with his anagram. Printed in Barcelona Spai...
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H 23.25 in W 19.75 in D 1.75 in
Joan Miró Abstract Color Etching on Rives Paper, from Book “Vingt-Deux Poèmes”
By Joan Miró
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful abstract color print or etching on Rives paper by Spanish / French artist Joan Miró (1893-1983), typically accompanying the poem Callioux, in the book Vingt-Deux Poèmes by...
Mid-Century Galerie Maeght Miro Screenprint
By Joan Miró
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ink on paper under glass in the original wood frame. The frame shows minor ware. The print is in good vintage condition. The graphics are great and the colors are still bright. T...
Joan Miro Majorette Color Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Westport, CT
Joan Miro Majorette color lithograph pencil signed lower right, numbered 16/75 in a beveled black wide frame,under glass 51'' tall by 38'' wide. Joan Miro 1893-1983 Spanish painter ...
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H 29.93 in W 22.29 in D 0.44 in
Joan Miró Lithography, Les Essències De La Terra i Ma De Proverbis, 1970
By Joan Miró
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lithography by Joan Miro, 1970. Edited by Poligrafa (Spain). Guarro Paper, numbered and monogrammed. Provenance: Barcelona (Spain). In good original condition, Joan Miró i F...
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