Joan Miró

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 GBP

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Description

Joan Miró
SANS TITRE
signed Miró (lower right); signed Miró, dated 5 /IX/73 and dedicated a Isabel y Pedro Servera, con todo el afecto. M. on the reverse
gouache, brush and ink, ink wash and pastel on paper
65 by 52.2cm., 25 5/8 by 20 5/8 in.

Provenance

Pedro Servera Moyá, Spain (a gift from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owners

Exhibited

Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, En Miró de Mallorca, 1992, no. 28, illustrated p. 58

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at all four corners and at the centre of the left and right edges, floating in the mount. The right edge is deckled. Apart from some very light staining around the yellow pigment, instrinsic to the artist's medium and some slight time staining to the sheet, this work is in very good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate, although the paper tone is brighter and the pink is more subtle in the original.
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Catalogue Note

Joan Miró was greatly influenced by his surroundings and the space afforded to him in Mallorca, where the present work was executed in 1973. The beautiful surroundings and stunning studio space that he used allowed Miró to develop and incorporate his vast imagination into his work. This later period of vibrant colours and monumental forms is clearly shown in the present work. Motifs that were signatures to his art in the late 30s are seen magnified as forms in his mature compositions, almost as signatures of his style. Miró's 1960s and 1970s œuvre shows the artist's confidence in his artistic language. The scale on which he worked in the 1970s provided an entirely new way of approaching his artistic intentions.

The colourful, bold surface of the presen🍌t work is an extraordinary testament to Miro's vivacious imagination and treatment of composition. Areas of the work have been overpainted in bold black strokes to create a truly dynamic composition.