Lot 443
  • 443

Joan Miró

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Miró
  • Les Esséncies de la terra
  • Signed Miró. (lower right)
  • Brush and ink over lithograph on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 14 1/8 in.
  • 50 by 35.7 cm
Lithograph printed in colors, heightened with brush and ink by hand, 1968, signed in pencil, from the total edition of 115, on japon nacré, framed

Provenance

Private Collection, Spain
Private Collection, Miami

Literature

Joan Teixidor, Joan Miró, Lithographs, 1964-1969, vol. III, no. 578, illustration of the lithograph p. 165

Condition

The full sheet, in good condition. There is a short surface scratch ending in two pin-hole sized punctures in the black ink just below the lithographic image. A few flattened creases are visible, most notable at extreme upper right, upper and bottom left corners as well as two horizontal creases toward the center left.
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