Lot #1715: JOAN MIRO - Fotoscope Sueco - Mixed media (gouache, watercolor, ink) on paper

 

Artist: Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893 - 1983).
Title: "Fotoscope Sueco".
Medium: Mixed media (gouache, watercolor, ink) on paper.
Date: Composed 1974.
Dimensions: Overall size: 24 1/8 x 35 1/2 in. (613 x 902 mm). Image size: 15 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (394 x 749 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Thick, flexible, light grey paper. Fine condition with no issues to report. Provenance: Private collection, Mexico City. Comment(s): Upon its creation Miro did not give this original mixed media work a title. It was later titled “Fotoscope Sueco” when Miro, who greatly admired his composition and wanted to pay homage to it, used it as the basis for a lithograph (1974) of the same name. The print (Mourlot 938, Cramer 209) was created to commemorate an exhibition of Miro’s sculptures. Seven different images were in the portfolio, each an edition of 1,500 signed in the plate. This particular image is included in the catalogue "Joan Miro - Fotoscope - The Visual Language" published in Swedish by Galerie Börjeson, Malmö, limited to 500 copies and each containing the lithograph (folded). There was also a pencil signed regular edition of 100. The portfolio was printed by La Polígrafa S.A., Barcelona and Taller Del Prado, Madrid. Depending on the image, the publishers were Art Conseil, Paris; Publicações Europe-América, Lisbon; Grafica Contemporanea, Milan; Bijustsu Shupan Sha, Tokyo; Galerie Börjeson, Malmö; and Ediciones Polígrafa S.A., Barcelona. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29460-6-16000]