JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"Ubu Roi 4", 1966.
Lithograph, copy E.A.
Signed, justified and dedicated in pencil in the lower margin.
Edition by Tériade, printed by Mourlot, Paris.
Provenance: Gildens Fine Art, London; Galleri Ostergard, Svalov, Sweden.
Certified by Gildens Fine Art, London, no.1495.
Work catalogued in "Miró lithograph 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.403.
Measurements: 54 x 75 cm; 82 x 104 cm (frame).
Joan Miró is formed in Barcelona, and debuts individually in 1918, in the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moves to Paris and meets Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of surrealist poets and painters, he matures his style; he tries to transpose surrealist poetry to the visual, based on memory, fantasy and the irrational. His third exhibition in Paris, in 1928, was his first great triumph: the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired two of his works. He returned to Spain in 1941, and that same year the museum dedicated a retrospective to him that would be his definitive international consecration. Throughout his life he received numerous 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 the Fine Arts, and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, as well as at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 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.