Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"Gravé sur le Givre I".
Aquatint engraving on Arches paper, H.C. copy.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 58 x 48 cm (print); 91 x 63,5 cm (paper).

"Gravé sur le givre I" conveys a poetic and spontaneous sensation, typical of the visual language of the late Miró, where the lines seem like symbols floating in space and evoke a free, light and almost dreamlike universe, in tune with the meaning of the title, "engraving on frost".

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 in the most important museums in the world, such as the MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Reina Sofia.