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Spaightwood Galleries
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343
Miró: The 1930s: Four pochoirs and a linocut
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In the 1930s, Miró was exploring using the pochoir (stencil) process to achieve color in prints, learning how to make etchings and lithographs, and executing his first and only linocut (see below). In his pochoirs, all of the color is brushed on, giving the print the surface of a gouache. This technical experimentation coincided with his involvement in the Surrealist movement and, even more so, the Surrealist vision. It also coincided with the Spanish Civil War (Miró was a Republican Loyalist and hated fascists of all stripes, particularly Franco, who would outlaw the teaching of Catalan in the public schools during his long reign), which inspired Miró to create one of his most explicitly political works, a powerful pochoir designed to elicit support for the Spanish Republic, under attack by Franco in a war that was turning into a testing ground for the larger war to come as the German Airforce tried out various bombing strategies and the Western Democracies did nothing.
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Personnages devant la mer / Figures by the sea shore (Dupin 13). Original color pochoir, 1934. Published in December 1934 in the art journal D'Aci i D'Alla; printed by J. Mateu, Pochoir Publicity Art, barcelona, 1934. The number impressions of this prochoir is unknown, as is the number that might have been destroyed during the Spanish Civil War soon to follow, What we do know is that impressions of this piee are rarely aavailable in the art market (this is only the second impression of this that we have seen since 1975). This is one of Miró's most surreal prints showing a male and a female figure reaching out for each other in lust or terror while the leg of the female figure on the right seems to interpenetrate the leg of the male figure on the left. A rare and beautiful print with the surface texture of a gouache slightly marred by two small flaws in the shape of spots in the lower left corner by the heel of the male figure and on the right side of the white torso of the male figure. The spot on the torso is not red but gray; the spot by the heel is a discoloration slightly darker than the yellow where it occurs. Image size: 315x245mm. Price: $8000.
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Cahiers d'art I / Surrealist Composition I (Dupin 14). Original color pochoir, 1934. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus c. 1200 unsigned impressions . There is a full-page color reproduction of this work in Gilbert Kaplan's Surrealist Prints (NY: Abrams, 1997). A rare and beautiful print with the surface texture of a gouache. Image size: 315x245mm. Price: $8000.
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Cahiers d'art II / Surrealist Composition II (Dupin 15). Original color pochoir, 1934. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus c. 1200 unsigned impressions . There is a full-page color reproduction of this work in Gilbert Kaplan's Surrealist Prints (NY: Abrams, 1997). It is also reproduced on the dust jacket of the book. A rare and beautiful print with the surface texture of a gouache. Image size: 315x245mm. Price: $8500.
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The best book on Surrealist printmaking and makers; it illustrates the two Miró pochoirs above plus several others by Miró and works by Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Rene Magritte, and others. Price: $45 (new in shrink wrap; very good used copies available at $30).
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Aidez L'Espagne! (Dupin 17). Original color pochoir, 1937. Published at the height of the Spanish Civil War as a loose insert in Cahier d'art (1937) to draw support for the Republican government, then under attack by Franco (aided by Nazi and Fascist "volunteers"). Printed by Imprimerie moderne, Paris. A rare and beautiful print with the surface texture of a gouache, color fresh and unfaded, in excellent condition. During the Museum of Modern Art's 100th anniversary exhibition for Miro, they also mounted a small print show. This print was reproduced on the cover of their brochure in black and white; in 1999, when they mounted a large exhibition to celebrate their acquisition of Miro's first series of 8 "Red and Black" etchings, they again included this work and Art on Paper reproduced it in color in their feature about the show. Not to be outdone, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduced it in full color on the cover of their March-April 2007 Calendar. One of Miro's most important works (one of 60 signed impressions was recently offered for sale for $49,500). The text beneath the images reads: "In the current conflict on the Facist side I see massive forces, and on the other side are the people whose immense and creative resourcefulness will give Spain a vitality which will astonish the world." Signed in the plate. Image size: 315x245mm. Price: $8500.
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Femme pour XXe Siecle (Dupin 40). Original color linocut, 1938. Edition size unknown (c. 1200 unsigned impression published in XXe Siecle, 1938. Signed in the block. A beautiful fresh impression. Although Miró was later to do many woodcuts, this is his first and only linocut. There is a reduced size reproduction of this work in different colors in Sam Hunter's book on Miro's Prints. In a late tribute to San Lazzaro, the founder of XXe Siecle, Miro revisited this image. Click here to see. Image size: 315x245mm. Price: $4850.
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