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Joan MIRO - The night, the bear, 1966 - Numbered lithograph in pencil

Joan MIRO (1893-1983)
The night, the bear 2nd State - Ubu king Plate XI 1966

Lithograph on watermarked Arches paper, numbered 14 on the edition of 75 copies.
This is the 2nd state of this proof ever signed, with the colors without contour lines.
One of the 13 illustrations for "Ubu roi", with texts by Alfred Jarry, published by Teriade in 1966 & printed by Mourlot.

Dimensions: 43 x 63.5cm

Bibliography: Miro Lithographs, volume III 1964-1969, Maeght Éditeur, Paris, Nr. 490-491-492, page 98 & Cramer N°108.


Dimensions :
- Height : 43 cm
- Width : 63.5 cm
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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.

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