Busacca Gallery

Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) (Untitled Blue) "Plate 3 - Untitled". Lithograph in colors on paper from the series of eight pieces including the cover published in 1956 by Jacques Prevert and Georges Ribemont Dessaignes, not signed, with folio fold marks, approx. 9" x 15" paper size, framed, overall approx. 16" x 22". The lithograph is in excellent condition. From the series of 8 pieces including the cover (not shown) published in 1956 by Jacques Prevert and Georges Ribemont Dessainges - Lithograph in colors from his early works printed by MAEGHT. 9" X 12.5" Lithographs by Joan Miró.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20 , 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. Born to the families of a goldsmith and watchmaker, the young Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, France. There, under the influence of the poets and writers, he developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols (for example, ovoids with wavy lines emanating from them), Miró’s style was influenced in varying degrees by Surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, described him as "the most Surrealist of us all." Miró confessed to creating one of his most famous works, Harlequin's Carnival, under similar circumstances: "How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling. Shuzo Takiguchi published the first monograph on Miró in 1940. In 1948-49, although living in Barcelona, Miró made frequent visits to Paris to work on printing techniques at the Mourlot Studios (lithographs) and at the Atelier Lacourière (engravings). A close relationship lasting forty years developed with the printer Fernand Mourlot and resulted in the production of over one thousand different lithographic editions.