4 lithographs in colors on wove paper
Joan Miró (1893-1983) – Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor
Eachh signed ‘Miró’ on the stone and numbered ‘140/1500’ in pencil
Plates 2, 4, 10 and 12 from the portfolio ‘La mélodie acide’
Printed and published by La Polígrafa, Barcelona
Catalogue raisonné: Cramer 1213, 1215, 1221 and 1223; cf. Cramer books 248 (this edition not mentioned there)
Plate dimensions: from 18.2 x 15.5 cm to c. 20.5 x 15.8 cm; sheet dimensions: 33 x 25 cm (3) and 29.7 x 23.8 cm
More compact forms of colored fields combine with delicate tangles of lines to lively compositions
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Condition:

Plate 12 is trimmed at the lateral and upper edges, all sheets are minor toned. Otherwise the condition is good.

Joan Miró (1893-1983)

Miró grew up in Barcelona where he started his artistic education at the art academy La Llotja against his parents’ will. After a short time, he was allowed to quit his commercial apprenticeship to dedicate himself totally to art. Miró became a pupil of the private art school founded by the Catalan painter Francesc Galí. In 1917 he met Francis Picabia who familiarized him with the Dadaists. Miró was influenced by the fauvists and cubists as well. In 1920 he moved to Paris, where he lived amongst the creative artists of his time. He got to know Hans Arp, René Magritte, Constantin Brâncu?i and Alberto Giacometti and exhibited with Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Meret Oppenheim and Max Ernst in several exhibitions about Dadaism and Surrealism. Miró moved to Mallorca in 1956, where he primarily created sculptures on a huge property, later ceramics as well and repeatedly oil paintings.of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. (fea)

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