Signed, Numbered Joan Miro Lithograph w/ Custom Framing

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Dec 3, 2020

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• Lot Description
  Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983). Color lithograph. Edition number 99/100 on lower left. Signed on lower right. 20th century. An outstanding and quite large, signed and numbered composition by the Catalan master Joan Miro, whose oeuvre was vast and pioneering; he is generally regarded as one of the 20th century's most innovative artists. The dreamy imagery features Miro's signature abstract, symbolic motifs in brilliant hues of red, blue, green, and yellow as well as striking black against a white ground. The custom framing includes museum acrylic that transmits 99+% of the image and has a uv filter. Size: print measures 31" L x 24" W (78.7 cm x 61 cm); 42.5" L x 35.5" W (108 cm x 90.2 cm) including framing
  
  Although Miro exhibited works with the Surrealists, he famously refused to be pigeon-holed in any one modern movement. This said, Andre Breton claimed that he was "the most Surrealist of us all," and Miro acknowledged that Surrealism was a great influence on his work, adopting automatism to move beyond his earlier representational style. The influences of Masson as well as Arp also liberated Miro, and his style came to include free calligraphic gestures and abstract ideographs rather than illustrative details. Miro would never embrace the picturesque leanings of Surrealism. Instead his work followed the formalist ideas of automatism and extreme analogy. He would become one of the most prolific and successful masters of Modern Art, joining the ranks of Picasso and Matisse.
  
  Miro began working in series in 1925. His series were inspired by conceptual ideas - such as his 'dream' paintings - rather than singular themes or motifs. Miro once cleverly compared his process to that of a gardener, "I think of my studio as a vegetable garden. Here, there are artichokes, there potatoes.… Things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water, as you do for lettuce. Things ripen in my mind. In addition, I always work on a great many things at once."
  
  Provenance: private Lewis collection, Florida, USA; acquired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shop in special print collection
  
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  #161242

  Condition

  This piece has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be in fine condition. Wired for suspension.
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