£800 - £1,200
Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Mas De Proverbis - Original work of 1970
Lithograph - printed on synthetic canvas/vinyl
Limited edition of 1500 copies
Signed and framed
Reference catalogue raisonne Cramer 679a
Comes with invoice no 2326 from Innocent Fine Art in Bristol
67 x 77 cm (26.5" x 30.5")
Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona. Miró began his studies in art early, at the age of fourteen, at the art academy of Barcelona. In 1917 he had his first solo show, the same year he met both Pablo Picasso and Francis Picabia. Although Miró’s early work was influenced by several movements of the time, including Fauvism, Cubism, and Dadaism, he became most well known among the Surrealists, whose first manifesto he signed in 1924. Throughout his career, despite occasional returns to figuration or full abstraction, Miró remained consistently true to the core tenet of Surrealism: working with the intention of liberating the creative powers of the unconscious from the constraints of logic and reason. However, although André Breton, author of the Surrealist manifesto, wrote that Miró was “probably the most Surrealistic of us all,” Miró’s work still stood apart; he omitted the accessible, representational elements present in much of the work by other Surrealists.
There is a charming sense of playfulness throughout much of Miró’s oeuvre, though the onset of the Spanish Civil War inspired more solemn and melancholic motifs in his work. The war eventually caused Miró to relocate to Paris in 1936, but by 1940 he was forced to return to Spain to escape the German occupation of France. It was during this period that he began to achieve international acclaim, and a large retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941 solidified his reputation within the art world.
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