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Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855)

Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855), 1972 by Joan Miro is an original lithograph on Arches paper.  It is signed in the lower right, and dedicated “Pour Fernand Mourlot” in the lower left in pencil. Aside from the edition of 80. M.855.

Miró’s art never became fully non-objective. Rather than resorting to complete abstraction, the artist devoted his career to exploring various means by which to dismantle traditional precepts of representation. Miró’s radical, inventive style was a critical contributor in the early-20th-century avant-garde journey toward increasing and then complete abstraction. Miró balanced the kind of spontaneity and automatism encouraged by the Surrealists with meticulous planning and rendering to achieve finished works that, because of their precision, seemed plausibly representational despite their considerable level of abstraction. Miró often worked with a limited palette, yet the colors he used were bold and expressive. His chromatic explorations, which emphasized the potential of fields of unblended color to respond to one another, provided inspiration for a generation of Color Field painters.
Title

Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855)

Medium

Lithograph

Year

1972

Edition

Dedicated

Signature

Signed, annotated

Size 18 x 15 (in)
46 x 38 (cm)
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Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855), 1972 by Joan Miro is an original lithograph on Arches paper.  It is signed in the lower right, and dedicated “Pour Fernand Mourlot” in the lower left in pencil. Aside from the edition of 80. M.855.

Miró’s art never became fully non-objective. Rather than resorting to complete abstraction, the artist devoted his career to exploring various means by which to dismantle traditional precepts of representation. Miró’s radical, inventive style was a critical contributor in the early-20th-century avant-garde journey toward increasing and then complete abstraction. Miró balanced the kind of spontaneity and automatism encouraged by the Surrealists with meticulous planning and rendering to achieve finished works that, because of their precision, seemed plausibly representational despite their considerable level of abstraction. Miró often worked with a limited palette, yet the colors he used were bold and expressive. His chromatic explorations, which emphasized the potential of fields of unblended color to respond to one another, provided inspiration for a generation of Color Field painters.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾo i fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanishpainter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.[1]

Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855), 1972 by Joan Miro

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Title

Joan Miro Lithograph I (M.855)

Medium

Lithograph

Year

1972

Edition

Dedicated

Signature

Signed, annotated

Size 18 x 15 (in)
46 x 38 (cm)
Price SOLD