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Signed ‘Miró’ in pencil (lower right) and numbered ’52/100′ in pencil (lower left).
Sizes:
Artwork: 50.5 × 65.5 cm | 19.9 × 25.8 in
Two of Miró’s creatures — one with a round, staring head and a body of black bars, the other a small mask on a curling line — stand in a field of black dots and smudged strokes on warm, tawny paper, in the pared-down, calligraphic vocabulary Miró had made his own by the 1950s.
Catalogued as Petite fille au bois, the lithograph was printed on Arches wove paper and published in Paris by Maeght Éditeur in 1958, the year of Miró’s great ceramic walls for UNESCO. It is signed ‘Miró’ in pencil at the lower right and numbered ’52/100′ in pencil at the lower left, and is recorded as Mourlot 183 in the standard catalogue raisonné of Miró’s lithographs — see Literature.
The sheet is in excellent, fresh condition, the paper bright and the impression strong.
Mourlot 183 (catalogue raisonné of Joan Miró’s lithographs).
Very good condition: a strong impression with full margins; the sheet lightly toned, with minor handling creases at the margins, remnants of old hinge tape and a few faint spots on the reverse; no restoration. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
This lot is catalogued under the artist’s name without qualification and is covered by our Five-Year Authenticity Guarantee under Section 4 of the Conditions of Sale. The guarantee concerns authorship; it does not extend to provenance, dating, condition or value, which are described to the best of our knowledge.
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The estimate of €800–€1,200 is our opinion of the range this work should reach; the starting price of €800 is the lowest bid we accept. We have not published comparable results for this lot; ask us before the sale and we will send the results we based the estimate on.
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Yes. This lot is catalogued under the artist’s name without qualification, so it carries our Five-Year Authenticity Guarantee under Section 4 of the Conditions of Sale: if the authorship proves materially incorrect, you may return the work within five years for a refund of the purchase price. The guarantee concerns authorship; provenance, dating, condition and value are described to the best of our knowledge and are not guaranteed.
A condition report with ultraviolet photographs is prepared on request, normally within two working days; the condition summary on this page is examined in-house and is not a conservator’s report. Further photographs of any detail, the reverse or the frame are sent on request. The work can be examined in our Barcelona showroom by appointment before the sale, and you are welcome to send your own conservator or specialist.
Born in Barcelona in 1893, Joan Miró emerged as one of the most radical and influential figures of 20th-century art. After early experiments with Fauvism and Cubism in Catalonia, he relocated to Paris in 1920, where he quickly became a foundational pillar of the Surrealist movement. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, famously declared Miró to be “the most Surrealist of us all.” Miró actively rejected the rigid constraints and traditional methods of bourgeois art—a rebellious sentiment he famously described as his desire to “assassinate painting.” Instead, he pioneered automatic drawing and painting techniques, bypassing rational control to tap directly into the raw, uninhibited realm of the subconscious mind and human memory.
His signature visual language is instantly recognizable worldwide, characterized by vivid primary colors, playful biomorphic shapes, and a profound personal symbolism deeply rooted in his Catalan heritage. Working tirelessly across painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking, Miró created a poetic, dreamlike universe that balanced childlike innocence with sophisticated abstraction. Today, his visionary masterpieces are housed in the world’s premier museums and remain fiercely coveted by top-tier collectors.
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