L'arbre des voyageurs

Artist Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)

Publisher Éditions de la Montagne, Paris, 1930

Printer text: l’Imprimerie Commerciale du "Petit Journal," Paris

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

Date1930

DimensionsBook: H: 10 1/16 in. (256 mm); W: 6 3/4 in. (171 mm); Depth: 11/16 in. (17 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 9 7/8 in. (251 mm); W: 6 5/16 in. (161 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 4 lithographs in black. Text: letterpress. Paper: Van Gelder white laid paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.772

Not on View

Label TextThis book is illustrated with four lithographs by Miro. The lithograph on display faces the last three stanzas of a poem titled "Temoin."Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 205

cf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 87, reprs.

cf. Cramer, Patrick, ed., Joan Miró, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1989, no. 1, reprs.

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. 97.