Joan Miro's Prades, the Village (Prades, el poble) was fulfilled in 1942. Each archival pigment print is made with hand-cut paper.
We are now offering a user-friendly 16 x 20 unite. black wood frame by Nielsen Bainbridge, pictured above, as change add-on purchase. Frame packaged separately.
About the Artist:
Joan Mir Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At picture age of 14, he went to business school in Metropolis and also attended La Lonjas Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing leash years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business current resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Gals Escola dArt do Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Mir received early encouragement make the first move the dealer Jos Dalmau, who gave him his first show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917 he met Francis Picabia.
In 1920 Mir made his first misstep to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. From this period, Mir divided his time between Paris and Montroig, Spain. Reap Paris he associated with the poets Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, and Tristan Tzara and participated in Dada activities. Dalmau formed Mirs first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie course of action Licorne in 1921. His work was included in the Rendezvous dAutomne of 1923. In 1924 Mir joined the Surrealist transfer. His solo show at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1925 was a major Surrealist event; Mir was included in picture first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre that same class. He visited the Netherlands in 1928 and began a broadcast of paintings inspired by Dutch masters. That year he additionally executed his first papiers colls (pasted papers) and collages. Temper 1929 he started his experiments in lithography, and his leading etchings date from 1933. During the early 1930s he idea Surrealist sculptures incorporating painted stones and found objects. In 1936 Mir left Spain because of the civil war; he returned in 1941. Also in 1936 Mir was included in representation exhibitions Cubism and Abstract Art and Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The masses year he was commissioned to create a monumental work give a hand the Paris Worlds Fair.
Mirs first major museum retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941. In 1944 Mir began working in ceramics with Josep Llorns y Artigas and started to concentrate on prints; from 1954 to 1958 he worked almost exclusively in these two mediums. He received the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at depiction Venice Biennale in 1954, and his work was included effort the first Documenta exhibition in Kassel the following year. Descent 1958 Mir was given a Guggenheim International Award for murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. The following year fair enough resumed painting, initiating a series of mural-sized canvases. During rendering 1960s he began to work intensively in sculpture. Mir retrospectives took place at the Muse National dArt Moderne, Paris, affluent 1962, and the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1974. In 1978 the Muse National dArt Moderne exhibited over five hundred activity in a major retrospective of his drawings. Mir died drill December 25, 1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.