535 - Joan Miró* (Barcelona 1893 - 1983 Palma)

Joan Miró* (Barcelona 1893 - 1983 Palma) The blue star, 1972 color lithography/paper 34,2 x 26,5 cm SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 200 - 400 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 200 Joan Miró was a Spanish-Catalan painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and ceramicist of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Born on April 20, 1893, in Barcelona into a Catalan manufacturing family, he studied at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc and the La Llotja art academy from 1912 to 1915, moved to Paris in 1920, joined the Surrealists around André Breton in 1924, lived again in Mallorca from 1956, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Barcelona in 1978, and created monumental works well into old age. Miró developed a poetic visual language with organic symbols, stars, birds, and female figures (“Catalan Landscape,” 1923/24, “Dog Barking at the Moon,” 1926), automatic drawings, and biomorphic forms with luminous color fields, black outlines, and playful symbolism, influenced by Catalan Primitivism, Kandinsky, and Arp; bronze sculptures and mosaics from the 1940s onward. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.