Joan Miró Color Lithograph for Henri Cartier-Bresson's "The Europeans," 1955

Item Details

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893 – 1983)
Untitled (abstract still life), 1955
Color lithograph on paper
Unsigned
Front cover pulled from The Europeans: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955
Published by Simon & Schuster with Éditions Verve
Artist name and date inscribed on label to the verso
Attribution sheet to the verso

Miró was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1893 and received his formal education at the Barcelona École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie 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.

Born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer of street photography and one of the most preeminent and influential photographers of the 20th century. A master of candid photography, Cartier-Bresson famously utilized a small Leica 35 mm camera wrapped in black tape to capture images inconspicuously. Starting his career in Paris, the artist was influenced by his socialization with the Surrealist movement as well as his later work assisting the renowned humanist filmmaker Jean Renoir. Henri Cartier-Bresson achieved renown for his globe-trotting work that documented the smaller-scale, human side of major world events, including the Spanish Civil War, the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, the victory of the Communist Revolution in China, and the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. Cartier-Bresson received numerous awards over his lifetime, including France’s Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1981 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Lucie Awards. Today, his work lives on in Magnus Photos, the internationally-respected cooperative photography agency that Cartier-Bresson co-founded in 1947, as well as in the collections of art institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the International Center of Photography.

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Condition

- scratches, scuffs, flecks of accretions, and small spots of peeled loss to print and paper.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; visible image measures 10.0" W x 14.0" H.

Item #

ITMGH56875