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Joan Miró: Drypoints for Flux de l'aimant (1964)

Miró 1930s / Miró 1930s_2 / Miró 1940s / Miró 1950-53 / Miró 1953-56 / Miró 1956: Prevert / Miró 1957-60 / Miró 1961

Miró 1963 / Miró 1963-65 / Miró Flux (1964) / Miro Ubu Roi / Miró 1966-69 /

Miró Sans le Soleil / Miró Sans le Soleil 2 / Miró Sans le Soleil 3

Miró 1970-73 / Miró Lezard (1971) / Miró Beasts (1972) / Miró Lithographs (1972) / Miro 1974-79 / Miró Lithographe 2 1975

Miró Lapidari 1981

Heroic Poetry: Brinkman / Frankenthaler / Mitchell / Motherwell / Nevelson / Tàpies
Flux de l'aimant is a collaboration between the poet René Char and Miró combining Miró's drypoints (in color and in black and white) with Char's meditations upon Miró's art. It was published by Maeght Editeur in Paris, the publishing arm of Miró's dealer, Galerie Maeght, in 1964 in an edition of 75 portfolios on Rives vellum signed by the author and the artist and xx portfolios HC numbered from I/XX to XX/XX. One of the drypoints is printed on parchment, the remainder are on a cream-colored Rives vellum. The drypoints are printed on paper c. 610x505mm (24x19-7/8 inches) and each is individually numbered and signed with Miró's initial "M."
Flux de l'Aimant III (Dupin 372). Original drypoint, 1964. 75 signed and numbered impressions plus 20 impressions HC. Light mat staining at sheet edges; indentations in paper top left margin. One of the most complex drypoints in this series. Image size: 483x584mm. Price: $8000.
Flux de l'Aimant IV (Dupin 373). Original drypoint, 1964. 75 signed and numbered impressions plus 20 impressions HC. Image size: 483x584mm. Price: $9000.
Flux de l'Aimant IX (Dupin 378). Original color drypoint, 1964. 75 signed and numbered impressions plus 20 impressions HC. Image size: 483x584mm. Price: SOLD
Flux de l'Aimant XII (Dupin 381). Original color drypoint, 1964. 75 signed and numbered impressions plus 20 impressions HC. Image size: 483x584mm. Price: $15,000.

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