***FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA***Joan Miro limited edition lithograph on cream colored wove from the very rare Prints of Miro portfolio; published in 1947 in an edition of only 1,500 examples. This piece was originally housed loose (unbound) in the portfolio. A complete example of the portfolio is listed by a gallery in Spain for $5,300This beautiful work was a part of the seizure of German fugitive Ulrich Felix Anton Engler and now is available to the public.An in-house certificate of authenticity is provided. This highly sought after piece is professionally custom gallery framed.Joan Miro (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) Early in his career, Miró primarily painted still-lifes, landscapes, and genre scenes. Influences ranging from the folk art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Catalan region in Spain to 17th-century Dutch realism were eventually superseded by more contemporary ones: Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism captivated the young artist, who had relocated to Paris in 1921. His exposure to the ideas of André Breton and Breton's Surrealist circle prompted Miró to make radical changes to his style, although the artist cannot be said to have identified consistently with a single school. Rather, his artistic career may be characterized as one of persistent experimentation and a lifelong flirtation with non-objectivity. Miró's signature biomorphic forms, geometric shapes, and semi-abstracted objects are expressed in multiple media, from ceramics and engravings to large bronze installations.Along with other Dada and Surrealist artists like Jean Arp and Yves Tanguy, Miró explored the possibility of creating an entirely new visual vocabulary for art that, while not divorced from the objective world, could exist outside of it. Rather than transitioning to complete abstraction, Miró's biomorphic forms remained within the bounds of objectivity. However, they were forms of pure invention and were made expressive and imbued with meaning through their juxtaposition with other forms and the artist's use of color. Much has been made of his influence on the Color Field painters - Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, among others; on Alexander Calder, who was a close friend of Miró; and, more recently, on designers Paul Rand, Lucienne Day, and Julian Hatton.

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