Miro, Miró, Joan, Signed Color Lithograph, Une Femme Start Price USD 18,500.00 Current Price USD 18,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 01, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Miro, Miró, Joan, Signed Color Lithograph, Une Femme' Description --> home current inventory search art knowledge art commentary buy art about us contact us Title: Une Femme (A Woman)Artist: Miro, JoanMedium: Lithograph PochoirImage Size: 14 3/4 in x 18 1/4 in (37.5 cm x 46.4 cm)Sheet Size: 25 1/2 in x 18 3/4 in (64.77 cm x 47.63 cm)Framed Size: 38 1/2 in x 32 in (97.79 cm x 81.28 cm)Signature: This work is hand-signed by Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) in pencil in the lower right margin and also signed in the stone in the lower right of the work.Edition: Numbered in pencil 94/300 in the lower left cornerCondition: Excellent  Description:Inspired by the 1932 painting (oil on wood) titled, Une Femme, this work was published by Maeght Editeur, Paris and printed on Arches wove paper.  The publisher’s blind stamp appears in the lower left corner of the sheet in addition its piece number, 94/300 in pencil in the lower left margin.  Hand-signed by Joan Miró (1893 – 1983) in the lower right margin, the work is also signed in the stone in the lower right. A note worthy work for both its subject matter and exquisite exploitation of the lithographic plate, this image offers a vivid impression of the original oil on wood.  Displaying Miró’s continual exploration of line and color this image documents the artist’s struggle between representational and connoted forms.  Using a varied palette of warm, cool and neutral hues, Miró creates a work that plays with the realm of fancy, seducing the viewer’s imagination.  With her flowing hair and playful features, the woman’s sexual organs are colorfully depicted against the neutral tones of her body.  The background of the work is rendered in a vibrant and highly textured green, which is offset by the orange and yellow of the ground and the vibrant hues of the abstracted rectangular sun.    This work can be related to a series of female explorations Miró created in 1932.  Of these works Dupin states Miró, “treats the female body in a series of extraordinarily daring variations, unequaled in their plastic felicity.  Miró’s line has never been surer or freer, it is at the same time dominated by the consciousness of form.  The musicality of the line combines with the plasticity of the figures to produce effects of ease and elegance.  The arabesque is sovereign but it is supported by long straight lines…The arabesque serves to explore and to celebrate the inexhaustible riches of the female body; it has no other freedom but that granted it by the curves and inflections of the nude, explored with delirious scrupulousness” (Dupin, 240) . Catalogue Raisonné & COA:It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work) :      1) Dupin, Jacques. Joan Miró Life and Work. Listed on page 526 as cat. 320.      2) Dupin, Jacques. Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné. Painting, 2000 listed as plate 403. About the Framing:Framed in museum-quality, archival materials, this work is set in an Italian style bronze and gold-leaf frame.  The muted tones of the moulding compliment the and highlights the tones and textures of the highly detailed, organic print.  Une Femme is completed with white, linen-wrapped mats and a matching gold inner fillet and finished behind an archival Plexiglas® cover.Style: 20th Century Master, Surrealism Who is Masterworks Fine Art? Masterworks Fine Art, Inc. strives to be the best source of fine art for our clients and collectors all over the world. 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