Plate (folio 36) from Hommage à Roger Lacourière

Joan MiróWW-1968-M006824

1968·Etching, aquatint, and drypoint from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint·plate: 6 5/8 × 8 7/8" (16.9 × 22.6 cm); page: 9 1/4 × 11 7/16" (23.5 × 29 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1968
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint
Dimensions: plate: 6 5/8 × 8 7/8" (16.9 × 22.6 cm); page: 9 1/4 × 11 7/16" (23.5 × 29 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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