Joan Miro [Hammer Plate V] 1976 Image size 28x23cm Original etching & aquatint

Limited edition of 215 copies, signed by the artist.

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A representative painter of the École de Paris from Barcelona. While participating in the Surrealist movement in Paris and being strongly influenced by Surrealism, he created unique object forms instead of just continuing the elongated style, forming Miro's unique abstract world, filled with musical joy. He expanded his activities beyond painting and prints to ceramics, sculptures, and outdoor mural sculptures, achieving global success.

1893 Born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker.

1907 Enters La Llotja School of Art in Barcelona.

1912 Enters the Francisco Gali School of Art.

1915 Begins to paint his own portraits and landscapes while being influenced by French Fauvism.

1918 Holds a solo exhibition at the Dalmau Gallery.

1919 Travels to Paris and interacts with Picasso. Enjoys barbecue and Paris for the next 20 years.

1920 Participates in the Dada movement.

1923 Moves away from realism and begins to draw symbolic paintings.

1924 Joins André Breton and others in the Surrealist movement.

1926 Designs the stage for the Russian Ballet's Romeo and Juliet.

1930 Solo exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, and New York. Creates his first lithographs.

1931 Exhibition of objects and sculptures at a Paris gallery.

1933 Equips his first etching.

1936 Exiles to France.

1940 Creates his representative "Constellations" series, establishing Miro's unique expression of forms.

Moves to Mallorca, Spain.

1941 Museum of Modern Art in New York holds a retrospective exhibition.

1946 Exhibits alongside Dali, Picasso, and Gris in the "Four Spaniards" exhibition held in Boston.

1947 First visit to New York, creates a large mural.

Around this time, he gained worldwide recognition and acclaim as a master painter, with retrospectives and exhibitions held globally, and museums around the world competing to acquire his works.

1949 Retrospective exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern.

1950 Solo exhibition of objects and prints at Galerie Maeght in Paris.

1951 Solo exhibitions in New York and Houston.

1953 Solo exhibitions at Galerie Maeght in Paris and Matisse Gallery in New York.

1954 Retrospective exhibition at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Germany.

1960 Creates a ceramic mural at Harvard University.

1962 Large retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

1966 Visits Japan for large retrospective exhibitions in Tokyo and Kyoto.

1967 Miro mural installed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

1973 An exhibition of sculptures and ceramics is held at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The Museum of Modern Art in New York holds the exhibition "The Miró Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York."

1975 The Joan Miró Foundation - Centre for Study of Contemporary Art, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, opens in Montjuïc Park, Barcelona.

1979 A retrospective exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings and watercolors is held at the Maeght Foundation.

1983 An exhibition of paintings from the 1920s titled "Joan Miró: Anys20" is held at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona. He continues to live in his home in Palma de Mallorca.

The Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona houses over 10,000 works, and works from museums around the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are housed there.

 Work Description

Joan Miró had a lifelong passion for poetry, which greatly inspired his art. Miró said, "Poetry opened up new possibilities for me and allowed me to transcend the realm of painting." A poet as well as a painter, he interacted with many contemporary poets, and was inspired by both their poetry and his own painting. Among these poets and literary figures,
René Char  (1907-1988) was a particularly important poet for Miró, and they maintained a dialogue. From 1948 to  1976 , Miró illustrated 12 publications by René Char, including "Le marteau sans maître", first published in 1934. The first edition featured a drypoint frontispiece by Wassily Kandinsky.

This collection of poems was also published in 1976  and is accompanied by 26  etchings and aquatints by Miró. In Miró's works from this period, thick, dynamic black lines are used, and space is constructed in a free form with thick black lines of various forms. This original etching and aquatint (The Hammer without a Master: le Marteau sans maître XIII) is also an original attached to this 1976 collection of poems.