Joan MiroLe Miroir de l'Homme, No 2. Mirror of Man. 1972

Original

etching with aquatint and carborundum texture printed in colours and black

ink.. 1972. Signed in pencil. Inscribed in pencil  as 'H.C.' - Hors Commerce – a

proof reserved for the publisher/printer. Total issued signed edition of 40

impressions, plus a few proofs. (See note below). Etched for the series:

Le Miroir de l'Homme par les Betes - Man Mirrored by Animals with poetry

by Andrè Frénaud. Etched at the studio of Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris 1972.

Edition issued by Galerie Maeght, Paris 1972.

Note:

The prints and the poetry were also issued as an album; for this the prints

were unsigned and not numbered. The edition of the album was 200.

Reference: Dupin - Miró Graveur no 567.

Excellent rich

impression with full texture and brilliant colours. On pale cream wove Arches

paper. Excellent totally fresh condition. Printed from an over-size plate and

thus with no visible platemark, as issued. Worked to full sheet size. Sheet:

437 x 323 mm.

The visual

richness of this composition by Miró is a superlative example of the

interaction of shape, colour and linear texture with which Miró was working his

etching plates in the early 1970’s. He was using the way that the forms and the

accents of colour and the surfaces affect each other to create the same

imaginary and subliminal visual world that had first stimulated his art and his

Surrealist artist friends in the 1930’s and was still full of life.

The album with

the poetry texts and the unsigned prints is very much collected but signed

impressions of the individual prints rarely ever appear on the market.