Artworks with a deckled or decorative edges will be floated on the matboard, with acrylic spacers to separate the art from the glazing. The mat's surface paper is fade and bleed resistant and is attached to a conservation quality foam-core mounting board that will keep the work safe from deterioration over time. Promotion codes cannotĪll prints are hinged to a conservation quality, acid-free and lignin-free Alpha Cellulose matboard, using an acid-free linen tape. Including commission, shipping, and taxes and duties when applicable. Winning bidders will be contacted within 48 hours to arrange shipping and to provide final price

Purchases made from all auctions, including benefit auctions, are subject to sales tax. In the case of multiple bidders placing the same maximum bid, the first person to place the maximumĪmount takes precedence as the highest bid until another bidder exceeds the maximum amount.įor Artspace Auctions winning bidders are charged a 15% Buyer's Premium on top of the hammer price.įor Artspace Benefit Auctions, Buyer's Premiums are not applied. If your maximumīid no longer exceeds the current bid, you will receive an outbid notification email, and have the Winning amount is less than your maximum bid, you will pay the current increment. Unfolds, we will increase your bid by increments to ensure you remain the highest bidder. Spend for a work, though this does not necessarily mean you will pay that price. You should always bid the maximum you are willing to The Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona also makes much of his work, as well as the work of his contemporaries, available to the public and awards a biennial Joan Miró Prize to contemporary artists.Įvery bid submitted is treated as a maximum bid. His work is found in collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Britain, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid, among others. He also received a number of large commissions, including work for the World Trade Center, the Maeght Foundation, and for the city of Chicago.

He also experimented with alternatives to painting: printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and tapestries. Miró was forced to return to Spain during World War II, and although the country was allied with Nazi Germany, it was safer for him than Vichy France.įollowing the war, Miró expanded his practice, collaborating with poets such as André Breton for texts that would accompany his work. The icon, like Guernica, were especially urgent given the concurrent disintegration of the Spanish government during the Spanish Civil war, which would soon lead to Fascist rule of the nation. The abstract work (now lost or destroyed) depicted a Spanish peasant holding a sickle and giving a Republican salute. Īlthough Miró moved from a more Cubist style of painting to one loaded with fanciful swirls, lines, dots, and brilliant color, his painting was no less serious than his contemporaries, as testified by his 1937 mural, The Reaper, which was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle, where Picasso’s Guernica was also shown for the first time. He associated with Dadaists and Surrealists, who were contemptuous of the constrictions of bourgeois society and its art, and sought radically new forms of representation.Īlthough Miró moved from a more Cubist style of painting. There he met Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, Ernest Hemingway, and Tristan Tzara, among others. He had his first solo exhibition in 1918, but was so ridiculed by local artists and critics, and so enamored with the arts community abroad, that he left Spain in 1920 and settled in Paris. He quit that enterprise in 1912 and attended school for art between then and 1915. Miró developed a sophisticated system of symbols and icons in his work, which endured over several decades.īorn to artisans in Barcelona, Miró drew and painted from an early age but attempted business school when he enrolled in higher education at age 14. His lyrical and ebullient pictorial language drew from archaic sources, as well as the drawings of children and contemporary art movements such as Cubism and Tachisme. Claimed as a Fauvist, a Surrealist, Expressionist, and a Magical Realist, the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró has had an enormous influence on the work of several generations of succeeding artists.

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