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Welcome to Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343; email: spaightwood@gmail.com
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Joan Miró: Le miroir de l'homme par les bêtes / The beasts as a mirror for man
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Le miroir de l'homme par les betes I / The beasts as a mirror for man I (D. 566). Original color etching, aquatint, carborundum, and drypoint, 1972. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus 200 unsigned (as ours). Image size: 445x330mm. The portfolio is signed by Miró and the poet Andre Frénaud, and a copy of the justification page (with his xeroxed signature) will be provided with the piece. Price: SOLD.
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Le miroir de l'homme par les betes II / The beasts as a mirror for man II (D. 567). Original color etching and aquatint, 1972. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus 200 unsigned (as ours). Image size: 445x330mm. The portfolio is signed by Miró and the poet Andre Frénaud, and a copy of the justification page (with his xeroxed signature) will be provided with the piece. Price: SOLD.
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Le miroir de l'homme par les betes V / The beasts as a mirror for man V (D. 570). Original color etching, color wash, and aquatint, 1972. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus 200 unsigned (as ours). Image size: 445x330mm. The portfolio is signed by Miró and the poet Andre Frénaud, and a copy of the justification page (with his xeroxed signature) will be provided with the piece. Price: $3750.
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Le miroir de l'homme par les betes III / The beasts as a mirror for man III (D. 568). Original color etching and aquatint, 1972. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus 200 unsigned (as ours). Image size: 445x330mm. The portfolio is signed by Miró and the poet Andre Frénaud, and a copy of the justification page (with his xeroxed signature) will be provided with the piece. Price: $2750.
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Le miroir de l'homme par les betes IV / The beasts as a mirror for man IV (D. 569). Original color etching and aquatint, 1972. 40 signed and numbered impressions plus 200 unsigned (as ours). First the paper was printed using black ink, then the etched image was printed using white ink. Image size: 445x330mm. The portfolio is signed by Miró and the poet Andre Frénaud, and a copy of the justification page (with his xeroxed signature) will be provided with the piece. Price: $2750.
Numbers III and IV are also available as a pair priced at $4500.
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The work was presented as loose sheets in a portfolio box with a text by the poet André Frénaud, five oritinal etchings by Miró, a collage made from thin metalic sheets by Miró on the cover (see above), and gnomic texts on full-page metalic sheets each measuring 440x325mm (17-1/4x12-3/4 inches). It was published by Maeght Éditeur (Paris, 1972). The work was dedicated as an homage to the genius of Hieronymous Bosch. The presentation case, the text pages and the collaged cover are available $1500. The individual etchings are priced above. We would be happy to make a special price to anyone wanting the entire ensemble illustrated above.
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The sheeet itself is pure white; the seeming discoloration is a reflection from the sheet of red foil attached to the justification page.
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According to the entry in the Oxford Companion to French Literature, by Graham Dunstan Martin, André Frénaud (1907-93), a , native of Burgundy, was a poet. For most his life he held an office job with French Railways. His two-year imprisonment in Germany after the collapse of France in 1940 is a main source of his first collection, Les Rois Mages (1943).
He has a great range of manners and tones: at times highly concrete and down-to-earth, as warm, humorous, and bluff as his own personality (see, in addition to the collection just mentioned, La Sainte Face, 1968, 1985)—at other times appealing to archetypal symbols, particularly in the long poems which he was unusual in continuing to write (e. g. La Sorcière de Rome, 1973). The key experience in Frénaud is ‘visitation’, in which a surge of energy (carrying with it a sense of unity) constructs a miraculous ‘château’ of words. In his trance, the poet has felt himself ‘another’, but is sadly restored to his everyday self at the end of the experience, and inspects his poem with mingled wonder and disappointment. Despite its great energy, Frénaud's poetry has a pedal-note of melancholy. His output is large: see also II n'y a pas de paradis (1962) and Haeres (1982), and consult the interviews of Notre inhabileté fatale (1979). According to Graham Dunstan Martin's entry in the Oxford Companion to French Literature, André Frénaud, (1907-93). was anative of Burgundy. "For most his life he held an office job with French Railways. His two-year imprisonment in Germany after the collapse of France in 1940 is a main source of his first collection of poems, Les Rois Mages (1943).
He has a great range of manners and tones: at times highly concrete and down-to-earth, as warm, humorous, and bluff as his own personality (see, in addition to the collection just mentioned, La Sainte Face, 1968, 1985)—at other times appealing to archetypal symbols, particularly in the long poems which he was unusual in continuing to write (e. g. La Sorcière de Rome, 1973). The key experience in Frénaud is ‘visitation’, in which a surge of energy (carrying with it a sense of unity) constructs a miraculous ‘château’ of words. In his trance, the poet has felt himself ‘another’, but is sadly restored to his everyday self at the end of the experience, and inspects his poem with mingled wonder and disappointment. Despite its great energy, Frénaud's poetry has a pedal-note of melancholy. His output is large: see also II n'y a pas de paradis (1962) and Haeres (1982), and consult the interviews of Notre inhabileté fatale (1979)."
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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 spaightwood@gmail.com.
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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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