Joan Miró Les Essències de la Terra (The Essences of the Land), 1968 is a foray into a Miró’s colorful imagination of abstract figures and symbols. Part of Les Essències de la Terra series, he creates a wonderful collection of repeated imagery to compose a powerful work. Layered upon a bright pictorial field of playful colors, one can see bold and black motifs. Consisting of a striking circle, a comma, a period, and a musical note, the iconography is powerful. These recurring gestures are a precise trademark of Joan Miró. Combined with beautiful and deliberate non-objective forms, lines, and poetic lyricism, this work presents a brilliant synthesis of Miro’s artistic reinterpretation of patterns and gestural deductions of poetry.

Created in 1968, this lithograph with hand-coloring on Japon nacré paper is hand signed by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma, 1983) in pencil in the lower right. This work is numbered from the edition of 100 and 8 color variations touched up by hand. Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona and printed by Mourlot, Paris.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Joan Miró Les Essències de la Terra (The Essences of the Land), 1968 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. Cramer, Patrick. Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, Patrick Cramer: Geneva, 1989. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 123.

2. Maeght Éditeur, Joan Miró Lithographs Vol. III 1964-1969, listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 582.

3. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:

This work is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Joan Miró Les Essències de la Terra (The Essences of the Land), 1968 is presented in a complimentary moulding and finished and optical grade Plexiglas.