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| Artiste: | Miro, Joan (1893 - 1983) |
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| Titre: | Gravé sur le givre I, 1972 |
| Moyen: | Gravure à l'eau-forte Aquatinte |
| Taille d'image: | 22 5/8 in x 18 7/8 in (57.7 cm x 48 cm) |
| Taille de feuille: | 36 in x 24 ¾ in (91.5 cm x 63 cm) |
| Taille encadrée: | 43 in x 38 in (109.2 cm x 96.5 cm) |
| Signé: | Hand-signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right |
| Edition: | Annotated 'H.C', hors commerce, in pencil in the lower left and printed on Arches paper; aside from the edition of 50. |
| Condition: | Vibrant etching in excellent condition; full margins and strong plate mark. Very light creases on left of sheet not affecting image. |
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With its spareness of color and delicate lines, this work embodies the artist's relationship to form. He needs only the barest of marks to make his point. |
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Noted Miró scholar Jacques Dupin writes of the artist's work: "A black, sometimes two blacks, fighting or in harmony, against a light, white or colourful background. Contrasts and breakages, rhythm interferences" (9). Gravé sur le givre I exhibits all of these qualities. Its delicate etching describes many lines: wire-bent clusters, blurred spirals, and short, confident verticals. The delicate composition leads the eye in several directions at once which, combined with the variety of line, makes Gravé sur le givre I one of Miró's more beautiful experiments with etching and aquatint. Punctuating the black framework are bold, textured accents of yellow, navy, tangerine, crimson, green, purple, and brown. The naïve line work and simplicity of the print belie the artist's power and vision. What Rimbaud lauded as "an 'absolutely modern' primitivism" here takes shape as a white and black world illuminated by shapes of color (Dupin, 7). To those who seek out the figural even at its most abbreviated state, perhaps you see a world inhabited by floating trees and running figures. Created in 1972, this original etching and aquatint is hand signed by Miró in the lower right corner in pencil. Printed by Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris, on Arches paper and published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, our Gravé sur le givre I is an H.C. impression; it is part of the very limited number of artist's proofs (hors commerce) available, apart from the edition of 50.
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La biographie de Joan Miro
Joan Miro (1893 - 1983)
Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja’s Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí’s Escola d’Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró received early encouragement from the dealer José Dalmau, who gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917, he met Francis Picabia.
In 1920, Miró made his first trip to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. From this time, Miró divided his time between Paris and Montroig, Spain. In Paris, he associated with the poets Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, and Tristan Tzara and participated in Dada activities. Dalmau organized Miró’s first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie la Licorne in 1921. His work was included in the Salon d’Automne of 1923. In 1924, Miró joined the Surrealist group. His solo show at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1925 was a major Surrealist event; Miró was included in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre that same year. He visited the Netherlands in 1928 and began a series of paintings inspired by Dutch masters. This year he also executed his first papiers collés and collages. In 1929, he started his experiments in lithography. Miro's first etchings date from 1933. During the early 1930s, he made Surrealist sculptures incorporating painted stones and found objects. In 1936, Miró left Spain because of the civil war; he returned in 1941. Also in 1936, Miró was included in the exhibitions Cubism and Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The following year, he was commissioned to create a monumental work for the Paris World’s Fair.
Miró’s first major museum retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941. That year, Miró began working in ceramics with Josep Lloréns y Artigas and started to concentrate on prints; from 1954 to 1958, he worked almost exclusively in Miro prints and ceramics. He received the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at the Venice Biennale in 1954, and his work was included in the first Documenta exhibition in Kassel the following year. In 1958, he was given a Guggenheim International Award for murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. The following year, he resumed painting, initiating a series of mural-sized canvases. During the 1960s, he began to work intensively in sculpture. Miró retrospectives took place at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1962, and the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1974. He also worked with carborundum around this time. In 1978, the Musée National d’Art Moderne exhibited over 500 works in a major retrospective of Miro original drawings. Joan Miro died December 25, 1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Joan Miro prints and unique original works are commonly seen in museums and art galleries in USA and Europe.
Joan Miró created a large wool and hemp tapestry titled "The World Trade Center Tapestry" that adorned the lobby of 2 World Trade Center. It was destroyed by the collapse of the tower on September 11, 2001. ¹
Historical Joan Miró exhibitions
¹ Lives and Treasures Taken. Library of Congress.
