Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983)
"Presència de Joan Miró" (Joan Miró's presence).
Poster for the Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona, 1976.
Offset on paper, copy 8/34.
Signed and numbered by hand.
Measurements: 75 × 49 cm.

Poster realized on the occasion of the exhibition "Presència de Joan Miró" held at the Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona between March and May 1976, one of the key spaces in the diffusion of the artist's work in the Catalan area. The composition reproduces a fully Miró's universe, in which linear drawing, biomorphic forms and recognizable elements -such as hats- coexist in a poetic and free language.

Joan Miró was trained in Barcelona and made his debut in 1918 at the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with the avant-garde and developed his own language influenced by surrealism. His international recognition was soon consolidated: in 1928 the MoMA acquired his works and in 1941 dedicated a great retrospective to him.

Throughout his career he received important distinctions and his work was widely disseminated in Europe and the United States. He is currently represented in institutions such as the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona), the MoMA (New York), the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), among others.