3872 - Joan Miró, Abstraction

Joan Miró, Abstraction A powerful composition by the Spanish artist, colour lithograph on lightweight cardboard, circa 1970, with a fold line and traces of stitching in the centre, mounted in a passe-partout and framed behind glass, sheet dimensions approx. 31.5 x 39.5 cm. Artist information: born Joan Miró i Ferrà, a leading Spanish painter, printmaker, designer and sculptor (1893, Barcelona - 1983, Palma de Mallorca), initially trained in commerce and worked as an accountant, whilst also taking art lessons, at times in Mont-roig del Camp; studied at the Barcelona Academy from 1912, and in Paris from 1919, where he met Picasso; in 1920 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, in 1926, together with Max Ernst, he created the stage design for ‘Romeo and Juliet’; from 1928 in the Netherlands, where he first met Alexander Calder, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship, met Wassily Kandinsky in 1933; lived in the USA from 1939, contributing to several exhibitions at documenta in Kassel, amongst other things; worked in Mallorca from 1956; received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from Harvard University; source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Wikipedia and the internet.