Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983)
"Tapís de Tarragona", 1972
Lithograph on Gvarro paper, eejemplar H.C.
Signed in plate with monogram and stamp, and justified in pencil.
The edition consists of 100 copies with Gaspar transparency and several Hors Commerce for the publisher.
Catalogued in Miró Lithographer V, Patrick Cramer, p. 14.
Measurements: 38 × 55,5 cm.

Composition belonging to a moment of full maturity in the graphic work of Miró, where the artist deploys a language of great formal economy and remarkable poetic intensity. From a few elements - structural black trace and primary color fields - he builds an image of strong dynamism, in which the forms seem to float in equilibrium on the white space.

The use of color, applied with a spontaneous but carefully calibrated appearance, refers to his characteristic symbolic universe, where sign and gesture become vehicles of direct expression.

Joan Miró trained in Barcelona, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1918 at the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moved to Paris, coming into contact with the surrealist circle, where he developed his own language based on free association, memory and the irrational. His international recognition came soon: in 1928 the MoMA in New York acquired his works, and in 1941 he was the subject of a major retrospective.

Throughout his career he received important distinctions, such as awards at the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the Gold Medals of Fine Arts and the Generalitat de Catalunya. His work is now held in leading 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).