Lithographs "Cartel De La Exposicion..." and "Plate VI" Designed by Joan Miro
Item Details
Unsigned
A color lithograph double image print including images titled Cartel DeLa Exposicion De 1948 and Plate VI, designed by influential Spanish Surrealist Joan Miro (1893-1983) and printed by Mourlot. This double image depicts and abstracted representation of a blue figure and red horse with text surrounded by a border of colored dots on the left side; and a composition of amorphic black forms surrounded by radiating highlights of red, green, and blue hues on the right side. The white background is broken up by airbrushed textural spots of color and speckles of black ink. The work is marked on the verso with the printed text ‘Joan Miro, Litografia original VI’. It is presented loose, unframed.
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
- crease to center; marks to upper left margin of print; minor wear and discoloration to edges; mark to verso at upper right; graphite script to verso at upper left.
Dimensions
- measures unfolded page; smaller print to left measures 7.0" W x 9.25" H.
Item #
18STA001-078
