Joan Miro – Affiche pour Mourlot

Description

Joan Miro, Affiche pour Mourlot, is an original Lithograph made in 1967.  It is signed in pencil in the lower right.  Dated, annotated “epreuve d’artiste’ and dedicated to Mourlot in the lower left.  Published and Printed by Mourlot.  M.512.

Joan Miro made frequent visits to Paris to work on printing lithographs, etchings, and aquatints at the Atelier Mourlot (lithographs), and at the Atelier Lacouriere (engravings). Joan Miro developed a close relationship with the printer Fernand Mourlot that resulted in the production of over one thousand different lithographic editions. Joan Miro attained an excellent technical mastery of printmaking techniques, particularly in the use of carborundum to create relief on the etching plate.