Le Chien aboyant a la Lune
Artist: Joan Miró
Image Code: JM3
- Date of Work: 1952
- Medium: Lithograph
- Signed: Signed in Plate
- Printed by: Mourlot Frères
About the work
During his first year in Paris after fleeing Spain at the eruption of the Spanish Civil War, Miró was tasked to create a work for the first issue of the Paris-based Verve Magazine.
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About the artist
Joan Miró was a Spanish artist born in 1893 in Barcelona. The son of a watchmaker, he originally studied at business school as well as Art school but after overcoming an extreme typhoid illness he decided to devote the rest of his life to painting. He moved to Paris in the early 1920s to escape the Spanish Civil War and soon joined the Surrealist movement. He also befriended a host of avant-garde writers, such as Max Jacob, Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, André Breton and Paul Eluard. The first prints Miró ever made were illustrations for Tzara’s 1930 book of poems, L’arbre des Voyageurs. Like Picasso, Miró had an unwavering commitment to printmaking. Also like Picasso he created more than 2,000 works in the medium. He is best known for his paintings, sculptures, cer ...show more
About the process
Lithograph
Lithograph printing works on premise that oil and water resist each other.
Oil based inks and crayons are applied directly on the printing plate, meaning the artist create...show more
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74cm x 58cm / 30" x 23"
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