Joan Miro
Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.
L'Oiseau Dresse
1960
Etching
12.5 x 18 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer, Atelier Maeght, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Dupin 286
An Hors Commerce impression aside from the edition of 90
Signed and annotated in pencil
SOLD
Series I, vert sur rouge
1961
Lithograph
26 x 39.5 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Maeght, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Mourlot 215
Edition of 30
Signed ed and numbered in pencil
$10,000
Les Saltimbanques, Plate III
1975
Etching
19.75 x 13 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Morsang, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Dupin 719
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Les Saltimbanques, Plate VI
1975
Etching
19.75 x 13 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Morsang, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Dupin 722
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Les Saltimbanques, Plate VII
1975
Etching
19.75 x 13 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Morsang, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Dupin 723
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Cahiers d'Art
1934
Pochoir
12.5 × 9.75 inches (each sheet)
Publisher, Cahiers d’Art, Paris
Printer, Crete, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Dupin 14 & 15
Unsigned as issued
Deaccessioned from the Glendale Public Library Glendale, CA.
$10,000
Obra Inedita Recent (Plate IX)
1964
Lithograph
12 x 17.25 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Printer, Lithografa Foto-Repro
Catalogue raisonné, M.424
Edition of 100
Initialed and numbered in pencil
$6,000