Joan Miro'

Joan Miro'
Le Marteau sans maÁ®tre (Hammer without a Master), 1976
2039

18 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (47.2 x 36 cm)

Complete set with 23 colored engravings in etching and aquatint by Joan Miró. Paris: Au Vent d'Arles. Folio, loose as issued, in the original gray wrappers. Preserved in tan Morocco backed folding box. A fine copy of this classic example of Miró's work as a book illustrator, this one vibrantly illustrating a poem by French poet René Char. Miró illustrated 250 books during his life, and some of the most accomplished, like this one, were produced in his last twenty years between 1960 and 1982. The complete set of 23 unsigned original etchings (ąquaforte and aquatint) in color, hors-texte, (including 8 which are double-page). Copy number one of an edition of 125 copies printed on Arches wove paper, with the watermark Au Vent d'Arles. Signed by Miró and Char on the colophon. Patrick Cramer, “Joan Miró: The Illustrated Books (1989), p. 216. Jacques Dupin “Miró Engraver IV” of the catalogue raisonné (2001), pp. 944-966.

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Joan Miro'
Le Lezard aux Plumes d'Or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers),, 1971
236

15 1/8 x 21 in. (38.5 x 53.5 cm)

Paris: Louis Broder. 15 color lithographs, loose as issued in publisher’s oblong portfolio. Signed. This set illustrates an original poem by Miró and reveals the artist’s harmonious mastery of color and space on a page. XVIII of XX

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