Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
“Umbracle”, 1973.
Lithograph, H.C.
Signed and justified by hand.
Work referenced in “Miró lithographer V: 1972 - 1975”, by Patrick Cramer, page. 59, fig. 922 (Paris; Maeght, 1992).
Folds on the left margin
Measurements: 74.5 x 56 cm.
Joan Miró trained in Barcelona, between the Lonja School and the Galí Academy. Already in the early date of 1918 he held his first exhibition, at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona. In 1920 he moved to Paris and met Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of surrealist poets and painters, his style matures; He tries to transpose surrealist poetry into the visual, based on memory, fantasy and the irrational. From this moment his style began an evolution that led him to more ethereal works, in which organic shapes and figures were reduced to abstract points, lines and spots of color. In 1924 he signed the first surrealist manifesto, although the evolution of his work, which was too complex, did not allow him to be assigned to any specific orthodoxy. His third exhibition in Paris, in 1928, was his first great triumph: the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired two of his works. He returned to Spain in 1941, and that same year the museum dedicated a retrospective to him that would mark his definitive international consecration. During the 1950s he experimented with other artistic mediums, such as printmaking, lithography, and ceramics. From 1956 until his death in 1983, he resided in Palma de Mallorca in a kind of internal exile, while his international fame grew. Throughout his life he received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prix of the Venice Biennale in 1954 and the Guggenheim Foundation in 1959, the Carnegie Prize for Painting in 1966, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1978) and Fine Arts (1980), and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. Currently, his production can be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, inaugurated in 1975, as well as in the main contemporary art museums around the world, such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the MoMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington, the MNAM in Paris or the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

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