Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale

Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale

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Private Collection, Japan

JOAN MIRÓ | SÉRIE NOIRE ET ROUGE: ONE PLATE (D. 32)

Auction Closed

October 25, 12:01 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Private Collection, Japan


JOAN MIRÓ

1893 - 1983

SÉRIE NOIRE ET ROUGE: ONE PLATE (D. 32)


Etching, 1938, signed in pencil and numbered 16/30, on Arches wove paper, engraved at Marcoussis' studio and printed by Lacourière, Paris, co-published by Pierre Loeb, Paris and Pierre Matisse, New York, framed 

plate: 257 by 169 mm 10⅛ by 6⅝ in

sheet: 445 by 328 mm 17½ by 12⅞ in

Boldly inking and layering multiple copper plates, Miró created his renowned “Black and Red Series” (Lots 35 – 39), a sequence of dramatic etchings that express his agony over the Spanish Civil War. Horizontal and vertical plates were employed to create disorienting webs that convey the chaos and agony experienced under Franco’s rule. The prints from the series mark the beginning of the artist’s “savage” period and secured his status as one of Spain’s great satirists – alongside Goya and Picasso.