Description

Joan Miró 1972 Litho from ‘Joan Miro Lithographs Volume I’

Original Color Lithograph V – printed on heavy Velin paper

Also known as : ‘La Luna Verde’

From the portfolio : “Joan Miro Lithographs Volume I”, 1972

Drawn by Miró directly on the lithographic stone

Editor : Poligrafa, Barcelona – Printed by Fernand Mourlot

Unsigned edition as a supplement to “Litógrafias Volumen I”

Size : 32 x 25cm

Absolute mint condition

Joan Miró was a famous Spanish Catalan surreal painter, sculptor and ceramicist, but he also created graphics, large installations and murals. His radical style for that time was a contribution to the early-20th-century avant-garde and complete abstraction later. Early fauvistic works showed the influence of Cézanne, in cubist compositions, but also a reference to the avant-garde interests of the painter. Few years later he started to change his artistic approach over the magic realism to surrealism. His surfaces become abstract and stayed like that until the rest of his career. Miró’s mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. The artworks are reflections of his subconscious mind, filled with pictorial signs, biomorphic forms, geometric shapes, and abstract and semi-abstract objects. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces. In Paris, where this series of graphics were created, under the influence of poets and writers, he developed his unique style: colorful organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp lines which we can see here.