1969
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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Paroles Peintes
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1975 Edition : 62/75 Publisher : O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris Printer : Georges Leblanc et Morsang, Paris Catalog : Dupin 827 38.00 cm. x 27.70 cm. 14.96 in. x 10.91...
Etching, Aquatint
Hai-Ku Series
By Joan Miró
Located in Missouri, MO
Color Lithograph Ed. 15/100 Signed and Numbered
Lithograph
Montroig I, 1974
By Joan Miró
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Joan Miró’s Montroig I, 1974, is a vibrant and poetic expression of the artist’s late-career mastery, where spontaneity and control exist in perfect harmony. Drawing inspiration 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
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
Bethsabee
By Joan Miró
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Miro “Bethsabee” 1972 Etching and Aquatint in Colors on Wove Paper Hand-Signed by the Artist in Pencil Lower Right Numbered in Pencil “5/50” Lower Left Maeght editeur Pairs Printing: Morsang, Paris Sheet Size: 36 x 24 3/4 inches Framed Size: approx 41 x 39 inches Catalogue Raisonne: Miro Engravings Vol. 2 (1961-1973), Pg. 197, #556 Joan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain on April 20, 1893, the son of a watchmaker. From 1912 he studied at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Barcelona was a cosmopolitan, intellectual city with a craving for the new in art...
Etching, Aquatint
Homenatge a Joan Prats
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1975 Edition : 53/100 Publisher : Fundacio Joan Miro (Barcelone) Printer : La Poligrafa S.A. (Barcelone) Catalog : [Maeght 1033] 56.00 cm. x 75.50 cm. 22.05 in. x 29.72 ...
Lithograph
Cartones
By Joan Miró
Located in Wilton, CT
numbered 64/180. Published by Atlantis Art Verlag Freiburg
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
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
Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned mid century modern American abstract painting
Board, Illustration Board, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 15 by 19 inches overall. Handsomely framed in...
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting. Pastel on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 30 by 25 inches overall. Handsomely framed in ...
Pastel
Untitled
By Michael Kessler
Located in Buffalo, NY
Kessler makes nature-based paintings that merge geometric elements with biomorphism. He began his art career as a landscape painter. While still an undergraduate at Kutztown Universi...
Oil, Paper, Wood
Large Antique American Abstract Expressionist Vintage Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modernist Abstract Signed Morrow Biomorphic Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 18"L x 20"H.
Canvas, Oil
