Le Désespéranto

Artist Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)

Publisher Bordas ([Paris], 1949)

Printer text: G. Girard, Paris; etchings: Roger Lacourrière, [Paris]

Author Tristan Tzara (French (born Romania), 1896-1963)

Date1949

DimensionsSlipcase: H: 6 11/16 in. (170 mm); W: 4 15/16 in. (125 mm); Depth: 4 1/8 in. (105 mm).
Book: H: 6 1/16 in. (154 mm); W: 4 9/16 in. (116 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (32 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 5 1/2 in. (140 mm); W: 4 5/16 in. (110 mm).
Element (untrimmed): H: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); W: 4 5/16 in. (110 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 8 etchings from cut pieces of copperplates in black with added pochoir color, plus a suite of 8 etchings printed from the remaining pieces of the copperplates heightened in the cut-out areas with watercolor. Text: letterpress. Paper: van Gelder cream laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.949C

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Cramer, Patrick, ed., Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1989, no. 20, col. reprs.

cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 298.

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, nos. 57, 125.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.