Miro, Miró, Joan, Signed Color Etching and Aquatint Start Price USD 14,500.00 Current Price USD 14,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, May 12, 2008 End Time Thursday, May 22, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Miro, Miró, Joan, Signed Color Etching and Aquatint' Description Joan Miró, Miro (1893-1983), From Espriu - Miro, Plate 870, Original Color Etching and Aquatint, Signed, Numbered and Documented! ARTIST: Joan Miró (1893-1983)TITLE: From Espriu - Miro, Plate 870MEDIUM: Color Etching and AquatintIMAGE SIZE: 19 ¼" x 26 ¾" (48.9 x 68cm)SHEET SIZE: 27 ½" x 33 ½" (69.9 x 85.1 cm)FRAMED SIZE: 45 ¼" x 51 ½" (115 x 130.8 cm)SIGNATURE: This work has a guaranteed authentic signature by Miro in pencil in the lower right hand side of the work.EDITION: Numbered 31/50 in the lower left hand side of the work.CONDITION: This work is in great condition, a wonderful impression with dark bold blacks and bright fresh colors!INSURANCE REPLACEMENT COST: $25,000 DISCUSSION:Depicting a scene full of motion and activity, this work gives the viewer a sense of depth and space. Layering images and utilizing the margins for imagery, Miró challenges our notions of printmaking and the use of space in an image. Created in 1975, this color etching and aquatint is from a folio of nine works published by Sala Gaspar, Barcelona. Printed by J. J. Torralba, Rubi (Barcelona) on Guarro paper with the publisher's watermark in the lower left, this work is signed by Miró in pencil in the lower right. Numbered 31/50 in the lower left, this work is in great condition with dark bold blacks and bright fresh colors. Capturing the viewer's attention with a spoon-like translucent red form at the center of the image, the sense of depth is strengthened with the use of overlapping colors and extending the image to the edge of the sheet. With his signature linear stars in delicate black lines dispersed throughout the margin, the dark black interior rectangle evokes a powerful contrast to the exterior imagery. With bubbles and frothy white spaces meandering inside the center of the work, the accents of transparent color reveal to the viewer what is beneath and break up the stark black and white of the abstract imagery. DOCUMENTATION / COA: It is fully documented and referenced in (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that I will enclose with the sale of the work):1) Dupin, Jacques, Miró Engraver, Vol III, 1973-1975, 1992, listed as cat no 870 on pg 192 with details on pg 191.2) Cramer, Patrick, Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, 1989, listed as cat no 197 on pgs 486 and 487. ABOUT THE FRAMING:Conservation framed with archival materials and museum quality, this work is float mounted on archival white linen in a monumental Spanish style black and gold frame. The sculptural details of the moulding compliment the organic elements in this piece. The contrasting tones of the moulding accentuate and enhance the lights and darks of this work. Completed with white linen wrapped mattes and a matching gold inner fillet, this work is set behind an archival Plexiglas cover. I. WHO IS MASTERWORKS FINE ART?II, QUESTIONS ABOUT BUYING FROM US? III. ABOUT US IV. 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