JOAN MIRO
Montroig 1893 - 1983 Mallorca

Les Geants - 1960
Original Hand Signed and Hand Numbered Etching with Aquatint

Title : Les Geants.

Technique : Original Etching with Aquatint on BFK Rives paper .

Paper Size : 75.5 X 105.5 cm / 29.7 X 41.5 inch.

Plate Size : 59 X 92.5 cm / 23.2 X 36.4 inch.

Additional Information : The Work is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist at lower right corner "Miro".
It is also hand numbered in pencil at the lower left corner 34/50.
This etching was printed in 1960 as part of the series "Les Geants" that included 6 different etchings and aquatints.
this was the third etching in the series. It was printed in a limited edition of only 50 examplares/proofs.
The paper bears BFK Rives paper watermark.
The publisher was the famous French editor Maeght Editeur, Paris,
And the printers were Crommelynck et Dutrou, Paris.

Literature :
Miro Engraver, Volume I, 1928-60, by Jacques Dupin, New York, Rizzoli, 1989.
Referance: Dupin 278, illustrated in page 174.

Provenance :Sotheby's, Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, London.
Photocopies of both the catalogue raisonne and sitheby's catalogue will be available to the high bidder.

Condition : very Good condition.
Light discoloration of the margins as a result of old matting.