$200
Framed Joan Miro limited edition lithograph; signed "M." in bottom right corner, and numbered 65/100 in bottom left corner; back reads "purchased Nov. 1964 Lenox Hill Hospital Art Auction $160" and has gallery info as well as the title and artist; measures approximately 22-1/2" x 18-1/2" with frame and has a sight image of approximately 16" x 12".Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan, Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2015-05-16
