Joan MiroL’Oiseau Solaire, L’Oiseau Lunaire, Etincelles. Sunshine Bird, Lunar Bird, Spark

Original etching with

relief biting, aquatint and texture. 1967. Signed in pencil. Rare

separate proof with no folds apart the issued edition. Issued edition

of 50 impressions. Issued to mark the Miró exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York

1967. Etched and printed at Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris 1967.

Note: This relief

etching was made created by Miró in Paris but for his 1967 New York Exhibition. When

the edition was issued it was to accompany special examples of the New York

exhibition catalogue. This impression is a proof apart from that edition and

originally sold separately by Galerie Maeght in Paris.

Reference:  Dupin – Miró Graveur no 447.  
Cramer – Miró Illustrated Books no 117 (for the exhibition catalogue/book

edition).

Superb proof impression

with rich colours and textures. Excellent condition. On cream wove Arches paper

– with the image ‘bled-off’ at the sheet edges and deckle sheet edges, as

issued. Overall sheet: 310 x 713mm.