Utilizing bold color contrasts and textural elements, Miró creates a strikingly beautiful representation of the sun. The viewer witnesses a whimsical landscape composed of shapes and lines that gracefully dance across the page. A dark, inky line snakes across this horizontal composition, reminiscent of calligraphy. In contrast, a streak of turquoise, evoking the feel of paint on canvas, dashes across the black curving lines. Two circular shapes, perhaps representing the sun, rest on the top and bottom of the work, one a brilliant orange and yellow and the other a vibrant pink. These suns, with their edges blurred, appear to radiate warmth and bring to mind either a sunset or a sunrise, capturing the moment when the sun either rises or falls above the horizon.

Created in 1962, this original color aquatint is signed in the lower right margin in pencil by Joan Miró (1893-1983). This work is an artist's proof (from the edition of 75 numbered and signed works and some H.C. copies, signed), published by Maeght, Paris and printed by Maeght, Levallois-Perret on Rives paper.

DOCUMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN:
1. Dupin, Jacques. Miró Engraver, vol. II 1961-1973, Rizzoli: New York, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné number 348 on page 44 (another example illustrated).
2. Maeght Editeur, 1962, listed and illustrated as catalogue no. 498.

About the Framing:
Conservation framed with museum-quality archival materials in a complementary contemporary black and gold moulding with white silk mats and optical grade Plexiglas.