Joan Miró: Catalogue Raisonné Miro Engraver 4 volumes - 8 original wood engravings
Complete catalogues of Joan Miró's etchings and wood engravings from 1928 to 1983
Catalogues written by Jacques Dupin with 8 original wood engravings by Miro and published by Galerie Lelong
Dimensions: 26 x 33 cm for each volume
Volume I: Miró - Engraver (1928-1960). 192 pages with 290 illustrations (in color and black and white) and 2 original wood engravings. Text in French.
Volume II: Miró - Engraver (1961 - 1973). 237 pages with 317 illustrations (285 in color) and 2 original wood engravings. Text in French.
Volume III: Miró - Engraver (1973-1975). 241 pages with 321 illustrations (220 in color) and 2 original wood engravings. Text in French.
Volume IV: Miró - Engraver (1976-1983). 240 pages with 500 illustrations (in color and black and white) and 2 original wood engravings. Text in English.
Excellent condition
Dimensions :
- Height : 33 cm
Joan Miró :
Spanish painter and sculptor born in Barcelona in 1893, He studies at Barcelona Fine Arts School from 1907 and entirely dedicated himself to painting since 1912. The artist asserts himself throw different mediums, painting, collage, lithography, etching, ceramic, sculpture on marble and bronze...
Miró discovers cubism and fauvism in Paris where he lives in 1920 and meets up with Pablo Picasso, André Masson and dadaïst members, before he become a member of surrealism. He completes his series of "Constellations" (1940-1941) at Palma de Mallorca where he stays in 1956. In 1942, he comes back to Barcelona then to United States five years later and begins monumental painting ("Composition with ropes", 1950, Eindhoven). From years 1960, his paintings show a new space research, often monochrom ("Blue I, II, III", 1961). His latest works are monumental statues for Chicago (1981), Houston and Barcelona (1982). The artist died in Palma de Mallorca in 1983.
