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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 306

Joan Miro "Le Polyglotte" Colored Lithograph

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Starting Bid
$1,200

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Hand-signed lower right and numbered lower left. BFK Rives paper watermark lower left. 

Date: 1969

Limited Edition: 41/75

 

Image: 32 1/2" x 23 1/2" 

 

Condition: Unframed. Image has slight acid burn around the outer edges. Old tape adhered to the back of the top edge & slight loss of color to the paper lower right corner. 

 

Artist Bio: Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona and came of age as a painter between Catalonia and Paris, where in the mid 1920s he joined the Surrealists and invented the language that made his name: floating biomorphic shapes, stars, eyes, ladders and spidery lines set against open fields of color. André Breton called him the most Surrealist of them all, yet Miró kept a Catalan earthiness and a sense of play that set him apart from the movement's darker currents. After the Second World War he worked increasingly at large scale, in ceramics, sculpture, tapestry and public murals.

Printmaking was central to Miró's later career. From the late 1940s he worked closely with the Mourlot workshop and the publisher Aimé Maeght in Paris, producing more than a thousand lithographs in which his signs and saturated primaries translate directly into ink. He treated the lithographic stone as a field for invention rather than reproduction, often drawing straight onto it. "Le Polyglotte," dated 1969, is hand signed and numbered from an edition of 75 on BFK Rives paper.

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