Joan Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 856), 1972

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Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from, Joan … more Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from, Joan Miró Lithographes, Volume I—the definitive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s graphic work. Published by A.C. Mazo & Co., Paris; printed at Atelier Mourlot, Paris.

JOAN MIRO (1893-1983) Joan Miro was a Surrealist Spanish painter who created artwork of imaginative fantasy. Miro was very much against the established painting methods of the time, and is often credited with being the founder of automatic drawing. Automatic drawing is the process of allowing the hand to move randomly on the canvas, leaving the artwork to chance. His dreamlike works contain impressions of playfully distorted animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric constructions. A contemporary of Picasso, Miro towers as one of the great masters of modern art, and is amongst the most famous artists of the 20th century. less