Serie Mallorca 9 Aiguaforts originals de Joan Miro. Invitacio Inaguracio 24 d' abril de 1973 ales 19 hores. Sala Pelaires. Pelaires, 63-Telefono 22 36 96. Palma De Mallorca. Joan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain on April 20, 1893, the son of a watchmaker. From 1912 he studied at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Barcelona was a cosmopolitan, intellectual city with a craving for the new in art, music and literature. But it was not the place where great art was being made. That place was Paris and Miro established himself there at the age of twenty-six. He made friends with Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Ernest Hemingway, Max Ernst and Paul Klee and was accepted as a Surrealist, looking stronger as the years went by. He lived alone in Paris in total poverty, but everytime he went out he wore a monocle and white spats. He kept his brushes clean, waxed and polished the floor of his studio and arranged his canvases in neat order.He was the most enduring of the Surrealist artists; he first visited the United States in 1947 in order to execute a mural Commission in Cincinnati, Ohio. His reputation had preceded him and he had already had enormous influence on such American artists as Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, who had adopted his Surrealist automatism and mysterious primitive symbols for their own purposes.He died on Christmas Day in 1983 in Palma Majorca where he had lived and worked for several years. Measure 8 1/2"in W x 17 1/2"in W only the aiguaforts; 17 1/2"in H x 26 1/2"in W with frame.

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