Le Lezard aux Plumes d’or (M. 446)

Description

Joan Miro Original Lithograph in colors on Japon paper. From the edition of 50 unsigned test proofs on Japon Paper, distributed before the cancellation of the original Le Lezard aux Plumes d’or Suite. Printed by the Atelier Mourlot, Paris.

Mourlot 446

In 1967, Joan Miro created 18 original color lithographs to accompany his poem “The Lizard with the Golden Feathers”. Some time after the circulation of these original prints, Miro noticed a manufacturing defect in the paper and decided to stop the circulation of the Le Lezard aux Plumes d’or series (Maeght 445-462). Only the works already in circulation survived as well as the test proofs that had been sent to certain galleries for their catalogues. The complete number of survived prints is unknown but it is estimated that there would be, for every plate: 30 tests on parchment paper and 50 tests on Japon paper aside from the signed and numbered edition.

Since the original zinc plates from the Le Lezard aux Plume d’or Portfolio had been obliterated, they could not proceed with a new circulation of the same compositions, and so Joan Miro created a second Lizard with the Golden Feathers Suite with new lithographs in 1971 (Maeght 789 – 828).