Joan Miró Color Lithograph for "Miró. Recent Paintings", 1953

Item Details

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893 – 1983)
Untitled, 1953
Color lithograph on wove paper
Unsigned
From an edition of 1250
Pulled from Miró. Recent Paintings
Published by Pierre Matisse, New York
Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris
Title page printed to the verso

Literature
Patrick Cramer, Joan Miró The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, figure 28.

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

- minimal even toning to sheet to recto with more notable toning and bleed through to verso; tape residue along upper edge to the verso of sheet; rough edge to sheet along right side from binding (obscured by mat); print examined outside of the frame; minimal abrasions to outer edge of the frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sheet measures 10.0" W x 12.15" H including binding edge; image measures 9.25" W x 12.0" H.

Item #

ITMG724793