Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"Homage to Gaudí".
Limited edition, copy 940/998.
In wooden case.
Unique edition with reproductions of the 21 engravings that Joan Miró made in his Homage to Gaudí, with texts created by Pere Gimferrer.
Editorial Planeta.
The reproduction, 80% of the original, has been made from the collection deposited at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The reproductions have been printed on 220 g Fedrigoni Stucco Tintoretto paper, and hand-glued on 200 g Tintoretto Ceylon Black Pepper card.
Limited edition of 998 copies, numbered from I to X the first ten and from 1 to 988 the rest, as stated in the notarial deed.
Study book enclosed.
Measurements: 76.5 x 58 x 9.5 cm (slipcase).
Joan Miró trained in Barcelona, and made his individual debut in 1918, in the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moved to Paris and met Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of the surrealist poets and painters, he gradually matured his style; he tried to transpose surrealist poetry to the visual, based on memory, fantasy and the irrational. His third exhibition in Paris in 1928 was his first great triumph: the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired two of his works. He returned to Spain in 1941, and that same year the museum devoted a retrospective exhibition to him, which was to be his definitive international consecration. Throughout his life he received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prizes at the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, the Carnegie Prize for Painting in Venice, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat de Catalunya and of the Fine Arts, and was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the MoMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington, the MNAM in Paris and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.