Maquette for: Persontage I Estels I

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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Maquette for: Persontage I Estels I
collage, ink, pastel, pencil and etching, 1979, on Arches wove paper, inscribed I in grey crayon verso, authenticated in pencil verso by Rosa Maria Malet, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2/IX/2008), with deckle edges above and below, in good condition

Image & Sheet 910 x 634 mm.

Provenance

Joan Barbará (1927-2013), Barcelona; then by descent to the present owner

Literature

See Dupin 1088

Exhibited

Joan Miró – Miró, inèdit I pòtum/ Miró, oeuvres in inèdits, Musée d’art modern Céret, 19 June -19 September 1993, no. 44.

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Lot Essay

Lots 74 & 75 are maquettes for the series Personatge I Estels I (Figure and Stars) , a set of seven etchings which Miró made with the printer Joan Barbará in Barcelona and which were published by Maeght in 1979. These remarkable working proofs reveal the artist’s experimental method of creating an image by placing and re-positioning the compositional elements in a playful way across the picture plane, using collage, brush and ink, and hand-colouring.

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