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Joan Miró
Description
- Joan Miró
- Signes et figurations
- Signed Miró (upper right); signed Joan Miró, titled and dated 19/12/35. (on the verso)
- Watercolor and brush and ink on paper
- 13 by 17 1/2 in.
- 33 by 44.4 cm
Provenance
Sale: Christie's, London, November 29, 1989, lot 554
Private Collection, Switzerland
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Miró’s dreamlike compositions seem to transcend time and logic, conveying his internal musings. “His painting is poetry, colour and rhythm. Or rather it is the osmotic fusion and synergy of these elements. Carried along by the free flow of his imagination, Miró constructs a representation of the universe that conveys his own delight in it. With this innovatory style of painterly expression, he transforms ideas into works of art. In the process of giving form to his ideas, however, he rejects logical connections, coherent relationships and, more particularly, the empirical logic of the period. As a poet, he has the right to this rejection, to this escape from time” (Miró: In the Orbit of the Imaginary (exhibition catalogue), Basil & Elis Goulandris Foundation, Andros, 2002, p. 11).