Joan Miro
April 20, 1893 (Barcelona, Spain)- December 25, 1983 (Palma, Spain)
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L'enfance d'Ubu
L'enfance d'Ubu
Signed by artist
c. 1975
Framed: 26 1/2 x 24 inches
Inside Frame: 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Signature
Les Essencies De La Terra: one plate
Les Essencies De La Terra: one plate
Lithograph, Signed by artist
c.1970, on Japon nacré
Framed: 20 x 14 inches
Inside Frame: 11 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Edition: 38/ 100
Past auction results https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5062992
Lithograph
Estimate:
2,500 - 3,500 CAD. Result: 2,223 CAD
Sale Details:
Canadian & International Fine Arts Walker's Fine Art & Estate Auctioneers
Dec. 04, 2013. L. ot 237
Mutual Art - auction link
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Unknown
Signed by artist
c.
Framed:
Inside Frame:
Unknown
Unknown
Signed by artist
c.
Unframed
Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches
Edition: 100/ 191
Signature
E.A. and 100/ 191
Unknown
Unknown
Signed by artist
c.
Framed: 9 1/4 x 12 inches
Inside Frame: 5 x 7 3/4 inches
Unknown
Unknown
Signed by artist
c.
Framed: 16 x 18 inches
Inside Frame: 8 x 10 inches
Miro- Derriere Le Miroir
Ubu Aux Baleares
Ubu Aux Baleares
Signed by artist
c. 1971
Framed: 30 1/4 x 24 inches
Inside Image: 25 x 18 3/4 inches
Signature
Signature
About This Piece
About This Piece
Historical Description
Miró Pl. 14 from Ubu aux Baleares, 1971 is full of symbolism and humor. Ubu aux Baléares is a prolific series that revolves around the character of Ubu on the Balearic Island in his last years in exile. Ubu is a fictional character created by writer Alfred Jarry. In all senses, Ubu represents the antihero, a man who is ugly, vulgar and stupid. Ubu Roi explores this man’s various exploits. His childishness enables the play to be work of satire. Influences for the play derive mainly from Shakespeare and contains a mix of slang, puns and comic relief.
In this illustration from the story, two figures emerge. On the left is a bovine character with a round body and a protruding nose. To its right, another curious character with bulbous hands leans to the left, gesturing as if in conversation. The playful lines accurately convey the comedic quality of the play. Nicolas and Elena Calas stated of this series, "Miró's Ubu aux Baléares could be taken for graffiti in which face and body are reduced to circular and angular outlines; the limbs to straight or curved lines; eyes indicated by tiny circles and a nose by a narrow triangle. Upon closer scrutiny each print is a deft composition in which the black lines and white space within and between the figures is carefully balanced. A seemingly endless variety of grotesque encounters unfold while we slowly turn the pages. Miró draws the comic situation from the banalities of comedy." (Maeght IV 17).
Created in 1971, this color lithograph is hand signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right margin; numbered from the edition of 120 in pencil in the lower left;published by Teriade Paris, printed by Mourlot, Paris.
Joan Miró i Ferrà mee-ROH, 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a 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 but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism.[4] 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.[5].
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