Joan Miró i Ferrà

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"Fundació Palma", 1988.
Etching, aquatint and carborundum on paper. Copy 11/80.
Presents dry stamp of the Sala Gaspar (Barcelona).
Signed in plate and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 70 x 52 cm (print); 96 x 70 cm (paper); 130 x 105 cm (frame).
The Fundació Palma series (1988) by Joan Miró i Ferrà is a posthumous edition of engravings that symbolizes the culmination of his artistic universe and his link with the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, created by the artist himself and his wife to preserve his legacy. From an academic point of view, Fundació Palma represents the materialization of Miró's legacy: the passage from individual creation to collective heritage. Although edited after his death, the series maintains the vitality of his late work, in which the artist reduces the means but intensifies the meaning.
Joan Miró was trained in Barcelona, and made his individual debut in 1918, at the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moved to Paris and met Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of surrealist poets and painters, he matures his style; he tries 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 dedicated a retrospective to him that would be his definitive international consecration. Throughout his life he received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prizes of the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Prize for Painting, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Fine Arts, and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, as well as at 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.