Joan MIRÓ - Original signed drawing with signed dedications from PREVERT and RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES
Original drawing, ink on paper signed and dedicated by Joan Miró to Paulo Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso, and his wife Christine Pauplin. Additional dedications in felt pen by Jacques Prévert and in blue pen by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, co-founder of the Dadaist movement around Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia.
Dedications made on the cover page of the book "Joan Miró" published by the Meight gallery in 1956.
Joan Miró and Jacques Prévert: JOAN MIRÓ. Text by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, works by Joan Miró. Paris, Maeght publisher, 1956. Volume in-4 (23 x 20 cm) paperback, 220 pages, publisher's binding in full soft cardboard, smooth spine, under illustrated folded cover, original rhodoid. First edition dedicated to the work of Joan Miró. Poems by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes who also wrote the essay on the Spanish artist. Book including 6 color lithographs including 2 originals.
Paulo Picasso, born February 4, 1921, died in 1975 - first and only child of Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova, Russian ballet dancer, first wife of the painter whose marriage was celebrated in 1918 in Paris.
Dimensions :
- Height : 23 cm
- Width : 20 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.
