Joan Miró Color Lithograph Page "L'Été" from "Verve", 1938

Item Details

Designed by Joan Miró (Spanish; 1893 – 1983)
l’Été (“Summer”), March 1938
Double-sided lithograph on paper, with recto in color and verso black and white
Signed in plate to lower left on color side
Pulled from Verve, no.3
Published by Tériade, Paris
Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris
Inscription to page verso in lower right reads “Verve, 1938”
Informational label to verso
Print title page is printed in lithograph to page verso

Miró was born in Barcelona, Spain during 1893 and received his formal education at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali. He became friends with Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Ernest Hemingway, Max Ernst and Paul Klee. Miró was accepted as a Surrealist in Paris with the recognition of some of the greatest artists of our times.

Condition

- slight toning to page; piece was removed for examination and re-framed; edge wear to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sheet size 10.25" W x 14" H.

Item #

ITMG331320