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Joan Miró: Graphic Work
The Fundació Joan Miró and the Cultural Centre of la Caixa de Pensions are collaborating to present for the first time in Barcelona an anthology of Joan Miró’s graphic work.
The works on display come from the holdings of the Fundació Joan Miró, to which the artist donated drawings, paintings, sculptures and tapestries: his entire graphic oeuvre.
Among the most remarkable pieces in the exhibition are the four black lithographs made in 1929 to illustrate Tristan Tzara’s book of poems, L’arbre des voyageurs; Miró’s first etching, Daphnis and Chloe (1933); the first two pochoirs the artist made for publication in the magazine D’Ací i d’Allà (1934); the fifty lithographs from his Barcelona series (1939-1944); Paul Éluard’s book À toute épreuve, illustrated with eighty boxwood engravings by Joan Miró; and a long list of titles that leads us to his most recent works.
The almost four hundred works presented have been selected with a threefold purpose:
- To highlight the evolution of Joan Miró’s graphic work over fifty years.
- To highlight Miró’s mastery of each printmaking technique: pochoir, lithography, etching, woodcut, etc.
- To provide the public with a broad overview of the place of graphic work in Miró’s oeuvre.
The exhibition Joan Miró: Graphic Work has been made possible thanks to the collaboration between the Fundació Joan Miró and the Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions.
The exhibition will open to the public on 13 November at 7.30 pm at the Fundació Joan Miró, while the official inauguration will take place at the Cultural Centre of la Caixa on 17 November at 7.30 pm.
