Joan MIRO: The essences of the Terra - Original signed lithograph
The essences of the Terra, 1968
Original color lithograph
Signed in the plate
On poster paper 77 x 55 cm
Excellent condition
INFORMATION: Poster published on the occasion of the presentation, at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona, of the book Joan Miró i Catalunya and Les esséncies de la terra, published by Ediciones Polígrafa, SA of Barcelona in 1968.
REFERENCES: Catalogue Raisonné Miró Posters #33
Dimensions :
- Height : 77 cm
- Width : 55 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.
