Richard DE GRAB - Joan Miró - Photograph with a drawing by Jacques Prévert
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Silver print
Dedication in black felt-tip pen, very graphic, by Joan Miro: "For Richard de Grab, amicement Miro, I / II / 64)"
Testimony of admiration and friendship of Marcel Jouhandeau to Miro: “As it has changed since the time I visited it on rue Blomet, some forty years ago. I still have before my eyes a huge painting with 100 characters, the Farm, of which he was the author and another the Bridge of Sighs which made Picasso tremble in front of me: on the canvas was stretched a long woman's hair between two loaves of bread. to buy. How I would like to see Miro again! "
Dedication in red felt-tip pen by Jacques Prévert to Miro embellished with a drawing: “Salut à Miro. the Admiral (Prévert) "
Provenance: Richard de Grab Estate (1927-2001). Professional photographer who has produced many portraits of renowned artists such as Cocteau, Dali, Picasso, Miro, Prévert, Hartung, Soulage, or even Poliakoff, with whom he has often befriended, such as Dali who affectionately nicknamed him "The Turtle ".
Dimensions :
- Height : 51,7 cm
- Width : 41,5 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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