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Pour Ida Chagall et Franz Meyer (For Ida Chagall and Franz Meyer) from Quelques fleurs pour des amis (Some Flowers for Friends)

Joan MiróWW-1964-M146772

1964·Photolithographic reproduction from an illustrated book with two lithographs (including wrapper) and thirty-two photolithographic reproductions·sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.4 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1964
Medium: Photolithographic reproduction from an illustrated book with two lithographs (including wrapper) and thirty-two photolithographic reproductions
Dimensions: sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.4 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Joan Miró

Artist

Joan Miró

Painting

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. 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, Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had 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 declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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