#50 & #12
Joan Miró
SET OF TWO ORIGINALS - ORIGINAL Lithograph IX and ORIGINAL Lithograph VIII
1972
Dimensions of Litho IX: Height: 19.5 x 12.5
Dimensions of Litho VIII: Height: 12.25 x 13.75
Printed for Derriere le Miroir and published in Paris by Maeght.
Both works were published as a folded sheet with a center crease. Not signed.
Joan Miró (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. He was known as Joan Miró in the art recognition. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

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