1956
With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.
Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work.
The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. I’m heading in new directions.”
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Untitled
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
This original color lithograph on Rives vellum paper was created in 1981 and is from the Lithographie IV portfolio. It measures 12.5 x 9.75 inches (32 x 25 cm), unframed, and is from...
Lithograph
Joan Miró -- Le gourou déployé
By Joan Miró
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Joan Miró Le gourou déployé, 1971 Colour lithograph Hand signed lower right Edition HC lower left Sheet size 119.5 x 77.2 cm Printed and published by Maeght, Paris Reference: Maeght...
Lithograph
Untitled
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
Joan Miro, Untitled, 1981 (from Lithographie IV) Original color lithograph on Rives vellum paper 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (32 x 25 cm), unframed Edition of 4000 (Published by Maeght in 198...
Lithograph
Cartones
By Joan Miró
Located in Wilton, CT
numbered 64/180. Published by Atlantis Art Verlag Freiburg
Lithograph
Sobreteixims
By Joan Miró
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Sobreteixims Galerie Maeght Exhibition Poster Year: 1973 Printer: Arte Paris Publisher: Maeght Medium: Lithographic poster From a limited edition of 7000 Dim...
Lithograph
No title
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1974 Edition : 25 ex. Publisher : Art Conseil (Paris) Printer : La Poligrafa S.A. (Barcelone) Catalog : [Maeght 934, p. 71 ; Cramer 191] 35.00 cm. x 52.00 cm. 13.78 in. ...
Lithograph
Espriu Plate I
By Joan Miró
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate I from Espriu-Miro Series: From the series Espriu-Miró, which contains 8 engravings printed on Gvarro paper with the publisher's stamp. Date: 1971 Med...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled (Joan Prats)
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered. Lithograph on Guarro paper.
Lithograph
Untitled (Joan Prats)
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered lithograph on Guarro paper.
Lithograph
Miró Sculptures Exposition
By Joan Miró
Located in Naples, Florida
This lithograph was created in 1971 in connection with a sculpture exhibition by Joan Miró. Issued as a limited edition, the sheet measures 33 3/4 × 28 5/8 inches and documents Miró’...
Paper, Lithograph
