Joan Miró Frontispiece and Colophon from "Les Essencies de la Terra"

Item Details

Joan Miró (Spain/France; 1893 – 1983)
Frontispiece and colophon page, 1968
Offset prints on Guarro paper
Signed to the colophon page
Numbered 846 out of an edition of of 1000
Pulled from Les Essencies de la Terra
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona
Printed by Mourlot, Paris

An offset print frontispiece and colophon page from the book Les Essencies de la Terra (The Essences of the Land), designed by Joan Miró (Spain/France; 1893 – 1983), published in 1968 by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona and printed by Mourlot, Paris.

Literature
Patrick Cramer, Joan Miró: The Illustrated Books, no. 123

Miró was born in Barcelona, Spain during 1893 and received his formal education at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali. He became friends with Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Ernest Hemingway, Max Ernst and Paul Klee. Miró was accepted as a Surrealist in Paris with the recognition of some of the greatest artists of our times.

Condition

- light toning to prints; minor wear to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame.

Item #

19CIN023-512