Joan Miró, Lithographic Print, Paris, 1972

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Fine Art Print by Joan Miró
1972, Société Internationale D’Art, Paris
Printed in France
From the Portfolio: Aquatints, Drawings, Drypoints, … Read more Fine Art Print by Joan Miró
1972, Société Internationale D’Art, Paris
Printed in France
From the Portfolio: Aquatints, Drawings, Drypoints, Etchings, and Lithographs
Page size: 10” wide x 13.5” high
Image sizes vary
Some images with text on back. Not visible through page
Some larger prints have portfolio fold in center
Many plate-signed

Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona.
In 1917 he met Francis Picabia and in 1920 Miró made his first trip to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. In Paris he associated with the poets Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, and Tristan Tzara and participated in Dada activities. In 1924 Miró joined the Surrealist group. His solo show at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1925 was a major Surrealist event; Miró was included in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre that same year. In 1929 he started his experiments in lithography, and his first etchings date from 1933. In 1936 Miró was included in the exhibitions Cubism and Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The following year he was commissioned to create a monumental work for the Paris World’s Fair.
Miró’s first major museum retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941. In 1944 Miró began working in ceramics with Josep Lloréns y Artigas and started to concentrate on prints; from 1954 to 1958 he worked almost exclusively in these two mediums. He received the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at the Venice Biennale in 1954, and his work was included in the first Documenta exhibition in Kassel the following year. In 1958 Miró was given a Guggenheim International Award for murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. The following year he resumed painting, initiating a series of mural-sized canvases. During the 1960s he began to work intensively in sculpture. Miró retrospectives took place at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1962, and the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1974. In 1978 the Musée National d’Art Moderne exhibited over five hundred works in a major retrospective of his drawings.
Miró died on December 25, 1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. See less