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"Il était une petite pie": 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe

Artist Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Publisher Édition Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1928
Printer Saudé, Paris
Author Lise Hirtz (French, 1898-1980)
Date1928
DimensionsChemise: H: 13 7/16 in. (342 mm); W: 10 5/16 in. (262 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 12 5/8 in. (321 mm); W: 9 13/16 in. (249 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 8 pochoirs prints after Miró gouaches, plus 1 image stamped and pochoir colored on the front cover. Text: letterpress (colophon and title page) and facsimile of original handwriting. Paper: Arches cream wove paper, watermarked.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.771
Not on View
Label TextLise Hirtz was a French writer associated, like Joan Miró, with the Surrealist movement. Her seemingly childish but morbid verses, published here in her own ornate handwriting, are paralleled by Miró's drawings in a spare, deceptively casual style. The title poem shown here reads: "There once was a little magpie/ Who was always in despair/ And always in her bed./ She was all black/ But very pretty all the same./ She went out for a ride/ A ride on mouseback/ Came back mortally ill/ And died in her bed."Published Referencescf. Cramer, Patrick, ed., Joan Miró, the Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1989, no. I., col. reprs.

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 107

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 98.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 47

Toledo Museum of Art, Magical Miró: Books and Prints from the Bareiss Collection, Feb. 14-May 11, 2003

Toledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars, Sept. 5-Dec.31 2008.

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