Création Miró 1961

Artist Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)

Publisher Editorial RM, Barcelona, 1962

Printer text: Industrias Gráficas Francisco Casamajó, Barcelona; etching: [Atelier Maeght, Levallois]

Author Yvon Taillandier (French, born 1926)

Date1962

DimensionsBook: H: 8 1/8 in. (207 mm); W: 8 1/16 in. (204 mm); Depth: 5/8 in. (16 mm).
Page: H: 7 5/8 in. (194 mm); W: 7 5/8 in. (194 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 2 etchings with aquatint, (2 states of the same plate), one in colors and one in black (the 1st state), on cream BFK Rives wove paper, watermarked. Reproductions: 60 photolithographs of photographs and works in various media by Miró, most in colors, on coated white wove paper; plus a photolithograph of a collage by Miró incorporating cut and torn photographs and paint (jacket). Text: photolithography on coated white wove paper, and letterpress on cream wove paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.794

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Cramer, Patrick, ed., Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1989, no. 76, col. reprs.