Joan Miro Untitled Peacock Feathers Composition 2

Description

Artist: Joan Miro (1893, Spain – 1983, Spain)

Title: “Untitled (Peacock Feathers) Composition 2”

Medium:Original lithograph in colors

Year: 1956

Signature: unsigned. There are no signed copies

Publisher: Maeght Editions, Paris published in “Joan Miro” by Jacques Prevert in 1956

Printer: Atelier Mourlot

Dimensions: 23 x 37 cm / 9″ x 14.6″ (sheet), with the usual centerfold

Documentation / References: Queneau, Raymond. Joan Miró – Der Lithograph II, 1953-1963, Maeght Éditeur, Paris 1975, Weber, Genf, pages 80-85, No 170

Framed

Expert Comments:Joan Miró, who left many of his works untitled, also leaves it to the viewer’s imagination who is stealing whose magnificent feathers here – is it a little mouse or rather a bird that has sat down at the edge of a mirror? And is the owner of this feather really a peacock or – as the small red trunk on the left suggests – the pig in us adorning itself with borrowed plumes? The subject of this original print seems to be vanity, observed by a calm, red sun. Friends of the early, cubist Miró will appreciate this plastic-surreal work of his.