Jean Célestin (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Private Collection
Galerie Cazeau La Beraudière, Paris
Private Collection

Executed on cream wove paper. Artist pinholes at all 4 corners. T-hinged to a mount at top and side edges. Sheet is slightly warped. Tape residue on verso at 6 places along the perimeter (all edges). There is surface dirt on the verso. Bottom right corner is slightly bent. Nailhead size loss to black pigment at center of top left quadrant. Colors are bright and fresh. Poster is in excellent condition.
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The present work, with its exuberant black brushstrokes, bold lines and striking colors, is a wonderful example of the joyful, childlike abstraction Miro aspired to during the late 1960s. Abandoning a more realistic and figurative approach, Miró developed a highly personalized vocabulary of signs, relishing whimsical and ambiguous shapes that take form in shifting and delightful ways. As Sandra Ditch suggested, 'the art of Joan Miró heralds a deep grasp of the marvelous. Beyond childlike innocence, romantic fantasy and poetic reverie, the marvelous for Miró connotes a cosmic perspective and focus on the dynamics of creation' (Sandra Stich, Joan Miró: the Development of a Sign Language (exhibition catalogue), 🌃Washington Univer💞sity, St. Louis, 1980, p. 8).

This work was used as a design for an exhibition poster: Salon de Mai, XXIIème Salon, held from May 2 - 22, 1966, at the Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Please note the present work will be sold together with the poste💮r for which it was the desig🌼n, illustrated below.