Color Lithograph "Plate IX" Designed by Joan Miro

Item Details

Unsigned

A color lithograph print titled Plate IX, designed by influential Spanish Surrealist Joan Miro (1893-1983) and printed by Mourlot. This nonobjective image depicts multi-limbed black central form, surrounded by radiating highlights of red, green, and blue hues. 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 IX’. 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

- to fair; crease to center with areas of print loss; minor wear and discoloration to edges; graphite script to verso at upper right.

Dimensions

- measures print.

Item #

18STA001-155