Joan MIRO - Anthology of Dark Humor, 1950 - Lithograph
Black Humor Anthology, 1950
André Breton/Joan Miro Collective
Original lithograph in colors by Miro on pure Johannot paper, signed and dated in the plate from the luxury edition limited to 45 copies + EA
Editions du Sagittaire, Paris, 1950, In-8 paperback, 352 pp
Autograph from Breton to Jacques and Véra Hérold
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cramer, Joan Miró - Illustrated Books, n° 22
Cramer indicates that the lithograph was the subject of an edition of 17 copies on Hollande van Gelder and 33 copies on pure Johannot vellum.
Moulot T1 No. 91
Good general condition of the book with some scattered foxing.
Dimensions :
- Height : 23 cm
- Width : 14 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.
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