Title: Migratory Birds IV

Medium: Hand Signed Lithograph ed. 18/75 printed on Japon nacré paper

Dimensions: unframed 26 x 19 inches, framed 36 x 32 inches

Biography:

Joan Miro, one of the most inventive masters of modern art, was born in the Catalan city of Barcelona. At fourteen he entered the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and later attended the Gali Academy.

Miro's early work was influenced by Van Gogh and the Fauves and dealt largely with realistic subject matter. In 1919, he made a brief trip to Paris, where he met Picasso and became acquainted with Cubism. While Miro assimilated Cubist aims and techniques, his Catalan instincts, his anti-intellectualism, and his passion for color rendered Cubism incompatible to his temperament.

Miro's natural allies were the poets, painters, and rebels who, alongside him, created the Abstract and Surrealist movements, including artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Salvador Dali.