Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
Untitled.
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper, copy 33/50.
Signed and justified by hand.
Presents adhesive marks.
Measurements: 57 x 45 cm.(appel); 70 x 61 cm.(frame).

This lithograph is inscribed in the mature language of Miró, where the formal purification and the autonomy of the stroke reach full freedom. The composition - reduced to lines, signs and graphic stains - responds to the artist's poetics, aimed at transforming the real into a system of symbolic constellations, close to automatic writing and the surrealist imaginary.

The balance between gesturality and precision, as well as the chromatic economy typical of the lithographic medium, reveal the importance of graphic procedures in the artist's work since the 1950s. This piece, with its repertoire of floating signs and linear tensions, is a clear example of his ability to fuse drawing, poetry and abstraction in a highly personal language.

Joan Miró trained at the Escuela de la Lonja and the Galí Academy, and held his first solo exhibition in 1918 at the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he settled in Paris, where he came into contact with Dadaist and Surrealist circles, developing a poetic language based on memory, imagination and symbolic abstraction.
His international consecration came soon: in 1928 the MoMA in New York acquired his works, and in 1941 the same museum dedicated a great retrospective to him. He received awards such as the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale (1954), the Guggenheim Prize (1959) and the Carnegie Prize for Painting (1966), as well as being distinguished Doctor Honoris Causa by Harvard University and the University of Barcelona. His work is present in the main museums of the world -among them the Miró Foundation in Barcelona, the MoMA, the Reina Sofía, the National Gallery of Washington, the MNAM-Centre Pompidou or the Thyssen-Bornemisza- consolidating his legacy as one of the great renovators of modern art.