Joan Miró, Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró (Wonders with Acrostic Variations in Miró's Garden), Pl. 9, 1975

Artist: Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Title:Maravillas con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró (Wonders with Acrostic Variations in Mirós Garden), Pl. 9, 1975
Reference:M.1059
Series:Maravillas con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró (Wonders with Acrostic Variations in Miró’s Garden), 1975
Medium:Color Lithograph
Image Size:29 3/8 in x 20 7/8 in (74.8 cm x 53 cm)
Sheet Size:29 3/4 in x 21 in (75.6 cm x 53.3 cm)
Framed Size:41 1/8 in x 32 1/2 in (82.6 cm x 104.5 cm)
Edition:Numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil in the lower left.
Signature:This work is hand-signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right.
Condition:This work is in excellent condition.
ID #W-5797

Historical Description

Miró Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró (Wonders with  Acrostic Variations in Mirós Garden), Pl. 9, 1975 is a color lithograph executed in his signature surrealist style. The image is composed of a series of brightly colored lines and circles, punctuated by thick, black streaks and dots. The stream of yellow in the upper register carries you from left to right across the canvas until you are pulled down into the body of the lithograph by the falling blue, and circling green. The multitude of colors and lines are playful, dancing the viewer around the canvas. The nonliteral use of these painting methods, instead seeking convey emotion, are a mark of Miró’s work.

This lithograph is part of a series of 22 lithographs by Miró that illustrated Rafael Alberti’s book, Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró. The book was printed by La Polígrafa in Barcelona in 1975 and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A., Barcelona.

Created in 1975, this color lithograph on Arches paper with an Arches watermark is hand-signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right corner and numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil the lower left.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Joan Miró Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró (Wonders with Acrostic Variations in Miró's Garden), Pl. 9, 1975  is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. Maeght Éditeur. Joan Miró Lithographs Volume V1972-1975. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1992. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 1059.
2. Cramer, Patrick, ed. Joan Miró The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Gevena: Patrick Creamer Publisher, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 211.
3. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Joan Miró Wonders with  Acrostic Variations in Mirós Garden (Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas en El Jardín de Miró), Pl. 9, 1975, is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.