JOAN MIRO VINTAGE MODERN ABSTRACT LITHOGRAPH OLD CUBISM LIMITED EDITION 1970

Description: JOAN MIRO (Spanish 1883-1983) MEDIUM: LITHOGRAPH TITLE: MAN SMOKING PIPE. CIRCA 1970. PLATE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED 781/1000 EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. MILD SCRATCHES TO THE FRAME. PROVENANCE: PRIVATE ESTATE, BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA. DIMENSIONS: 22”W x 28”H Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) was active/lived in Spain, France. Joan Miro is known for Abstract curvilinear design painting, collage, mural. Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) was active/lived in Spain, France. Joan Miro is known for Abstract curvilinear design painting, collage, mural. Joan Miró was born April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, Spain. His dad was a goldsmith and watchmaker. Joan had an early passion for art, and took drawing classes while at primary school. As for his other classes though, he did rather poorly. Art was the only thing he excelled at. In 1907, he enrolled at School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Barcelona, the Lonja, and stayed there until 1910. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró received early encouragement from the dealer José Dalmau, who gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917, he met Francis Picabia. Miró's best friend was Max Ernst, another Surrealist artist and together, they were asked to design the costumes and set for the ballet Romeo and Juliet in 1926. It was performed in Paris by the Ballets Russes. Soon after, Joan started becoming interested in other types of art, like collages, lithographs, etchings, and engraving. His collage Spanish Dancer is the most well-known. In 1929, Miró married Pilar Juncosa, and they had a daughter, Dolores on July 17, 1931. Soon after, the Spanish Civil War broke out, they moved to Paris. Joan was able to continue his art there and raise his family. They moved back to Spain in 1940. During the time in Spain though, his art started showing Surrealism. For instance, Composition, made in 1933, is kind of a fantasy/dream-like state. It has the influence of Henri Matisse in the lines, but Sigmund Freud in the overall idea. It suggests that you have to search for your identity in your mind. In 1920, Miró made his first trip to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. From this time, Miró divided his time between Paris and Montroig, Spain. In Paris, he associated with the poets Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, and Tristan Tzara and participated in Dada activities. Dalmau organized Miró's first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie la Licorne in 1921. His work was included in the Salon d'Automne of 1923. In 1924 Miró joined the Surrealist group. His solo show at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1925 was a major Surrealist event; Miró was included in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre that same year. He visited the Netherlands in 1928 and began a series of paintings inspired by Dutch masters. That year he also executed his first papiers collés (pasted papers) and collages. In 1929 he started his experiments in lithography, and his first etchings date from 1933. During the early 1930s he made Surrealist sculptures incorporating painted stones and found objects. In 1936 Miró left Spain because of the civil war; he returned in 1941. Also in 1936 Miró was included in the exhibitions Cubism and Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The following year he was commissioned to create a monumental work for the Paris World's Fair. Miró's first major museum retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941. That year Miró began working in ceramics with Josep Lloréns y Artigas and started to concentrate on prints; from 1954 to 1958 he worked almost exclusively in these two mediums. He received the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at the Venice Biennale in 1954, and his work was included in the first Documenta exhibition in Kassel the following year. In 1958 Miró was given a Guggenheim International Award for murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. The following year he resumed painting, initiating a series of mural-sized canvases. During the 1960s he began to work intensively in sculpture. Miró retrospectives took place at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1962, and the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1974. In 1978 the Musée National d'Art Moderne exhibited over five hundred works in a major retrospective of his drawings. Miró died on December 25, 1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Museums: Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL) Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI) Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY (Flushing, NY) Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, MI) Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA) The Canton Museum of Art (Canton, OH) The Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard, CA) The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman, OK) University of Saint Joseph Art Gallery (West Hartford, CT) University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, WY) High: $36.95MM (2012). $114,951/sq in (2017). Lots Sold: 75%

Price: 2400 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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