PRIORITY-Color Lithograph "Plate II" Designed by Joan Miro

Item Details

A color lithograph print titled Plate IV, designed by influential Spanish Surrealist Joan Miro (1893-1983) and printed by Mourlot. This nonobjective image depicts a bold black arch and horizontal bar, highlighted by radiating stripes 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 II’. 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; minor wear to edges; areas of print visible to verso.

Dimensions

- measures unfolded print; image measures 9.75" W x 12.5" H.

Item #

18STA001-243