JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"La Tresor et la Mère Ubu", Suite Ubu Roi, 1966.
Set of three lithographs, copies 47/75.
Numbered in pencil.
Work cataloged in "Miró lithographer vol. III: 1964-1969", by Joan Teixidor (Barcelona; Polígrafa, 1987). It is part of the suite "Ubu Roi", composed of thirteen lithographs accompanying texts by Alfred Jarry, 1966, p. 418.
Acquired by the present owner from the Theler family (Switzerland).
Measurements: 54 x 74 cm; 83 x 104 cm (frame).
Seventy-five folders containing a large-margin suite, numbered and signed; a numbered and monogrammed black state, and a numbered color state have been made.
The series Ubu Rey, made by Joan Miró in 1966, consists of 13 lithographs. Of these, 205 copies have been printed on Arches vellum paper, of which 25 copies are out of commerce, numbered and signed. In addition, 75 folders have been printed containing a large-margin "suite", numbered and signed, a numbered and monogrammed black state and a numbered color state.
Internationally acclaimed following the retrospective that the MOMA in New York dedicated to him in 1941, Joan Miró has won awards such as the Grand Prizes of the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Prize for Painting, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat de Catalunya and of the Fine Arts, etc. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, as well as in the main contemporary art museums around the world, such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington, the MNAM in Paris and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.