Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893-1983
Miro and Yvon Taillandier 1959-60, 1961
Each etching with aquatint signed Miró in graphite l.r. and numbered XI/XXV in graphite l.l. (7)
Six etchings with aquatint printed in colours on Japan nacre paper and one etching with aquatint printed in colours on Rives wove paper from the edition of 25, numbered from I to XXV
In the original case with additional unsigned lithographs as published (consult literature for extensive details)
Each unfolded
31.4 x 38 cm
12 3/8 x 15 in
Printed by Atelier Maeght, Levallois
Published by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
“It was in a quiet Paris bar where Miró and I sat looking over some photographs of his recent works. We were both trying to find titles for the forms that float and fly through all of them. We had compared them to fishes, to air bubbles, which are tiny fishes, to birds, which are fishes of the air, to stars, which are both birds and fishes of the distant…