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Spaightwood Galleries
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343
Joan Miró: 1966-1969
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The late 1960s saw an incredible creative burst from Miró centering on printmaking. Commenting once upon a book that argued that Aimé Maeght was a slave-driver who ordered Miró to produce many prints during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jean Frémon of Galerie Maeght and Galerie Lelong laughed and said that the case was quite the reverse: that Aimé Maeght urgerd Miró not to produce so many lithographs because he feared that the art maarket could not absorb them all. Miró's concession was to agree to spread the publication of these prints out over a number of years but the making went on without a pause.
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Bouquets de reves pour pour Leila (M. 546). Original color lithograph, 1964-67. Edition unknown. Published in the deluxe art review XXe Siecle in 1964. In 1967, 150 additional impressions were published in the livre d'artiste, Bouquet de Reves pour Neila. Image size: 315x241mm. Price: $675.
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Compostion for Derrière le Miroir (M. 507). Original color lithograph, 1967. Published in a special number of this deluxe art review dedicated to Miró. Image size: 380x280mm. Price: $875.
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Compostion for Derrière le Miroir (M. 508). Original color lithograph, 1967. Published in a special number of this deluxe art review dedicated to Miró. Image size: 380x280mm. Price: $775.
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Astre et fumée / Star and Smoke (Dupin 424). Original color aquatint and etching with carborundum, 1967. 75 signed and numbered impressions on Mandeure rag paper printed by Arte Adrien Maeght and published by Maeght éditeur, Paris. One of Miró's most important prints, this work was selected by the Museum of Modern Art's Riva Castleman as the only Miró included in Modern Art in Prints (NY: MoMA, 1973), p. 39, an exhibition that was shown at MoMA before touring in the Far East, Australia, and New Zealand. Castleman wrote of this work, "Liquid washes form the smoky passages that swirl around the crusty star-disks. Raspy linear jottings are magical messages in a code devised by the artist. This abstract, placeless composition is typical of the abandoned gaiety of Miró's inventively modern spirit." She adds, "Spontaneity and rhythms were basic factors in the artistic developments occurring in the decade after World War II. Miró displays in his work the roots from which some of these developments grew." Image size: 750x560mm. Price: SOLD.
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L'equarisseur à l'ouvrage / The wood-squarer at work (M. 584). Original color lithograph, 1968. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum. Published by Maeght Editeur. An excellent impression with fresh colors. Image size: 550x550mm. Price: $12,500.
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Fissures IIa (Dupin 466, Cramer 130). Original color soft varnish-etching and aquatint, 1969.75 signed & numbered impressions plus 20 HC impressions. Ours is a printer's proof on BFK Rives. Published by Maeght, Paris; our impression comes from the widow of the printer, Robert Dutrou, one of Miró's favorite collaborators. Image size: 195x290mm. Price: $12,500.
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Chevaucheé Brun / Horseback ride—brown (M. 608). Original color lithograph, 1969. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum. Published by Maeght Editeur. Included in numerous museum shows including the 6-city 1984 Japanese Miro retrospective and the Musée Mandet retrospective of Miró's prints. An important work. Image size: 845x605mm. Price: $13,500.
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Chevaucheé Vert, Violet, Brun / Horseback ride—green, violet, brown (M. 611). Original color lithograph, 1969. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum. Published by Maeght Editeur. Illustrated in Indelible Miró. Image size: 845x605mm. Price: $13,500.
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The Ployglot Man: Sable (M. 604). Original color lithograph, 1969. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum. Published by Maeght Editeur. This work has been included in the 1988 Miró retrospectives in Fécamp and Tarascon. Illustrated in Indelible Miró. Image size: 845x661mm. Price: $13,500.
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The Mesmerizer: Orange (M. 600). Original color lithograph, 1969. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum. Published by Maeght Editeur. Image size: 845x661mm. Price: $13,500.
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The Taciturn Majorcan (M. 595). Original color lithograph, 1969. 75 signed & numbered impressions on Rives vellum plus several HC impressions, of which ours is one. Published by Maeght Editeur. One of Miró's most beautiful lithographs, with a small restored area where a small abrasion is now visible only through a magnifier or at very close range. Barely visible handling crease across very bottom of the sheet. Image size: 845x661mm. Price: SOLD.
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Mannequin Parade en Chine / Mannequin Parade in China (M. 632). Original color lithograph, 1969-1973. 75 signed & numbered impressions. This print has been included in numerous museum shows & illustrated in several museum catalogs of Miró's graphic works, including a 1984 retrospective that toured six cities in Japan\ & the 1990 Musée Mandet Miró print exhibit. One of of Miró's most important prints and one of his largest. Image size: 1260x865mm. Price: SOLD.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement. Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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