| Title: |
The Dog Barking at the Moon Awakens the Cock, The Crowing of the Cock Pecks at the Head of the Catalan Farmer Resting
on the Table beside the Flask of Wine |
| Artist: |
Miro, Joan (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983) |
| Date: |
1952 |
| Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
| Publisher: |
Verve, Paris |
| Printer: |
Fernand Mourlot, Paris |
| Note: |
Joan Miro: One of the most creative artists
of the twentieth century, Joan Miro is as highly regarded for his lithographic
art as for his paintings and sculpture. After the conclusion of World War
One, Joan Miro traveled to Paris where he first was influenced by Cubism. Yet
his infatuation with Cubism was short lived and Miro quickly became a leading
exponent of both Dadaism and the Surrealist movement. |
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Most of Joan Miro's early masterworks are derived from either dreams
or hallucinations -- the guiding elements of Surrealism. In an 1948 interview,
however, he related, "Nowadays I rarely start a picture from a
hallucination. What is most interesting to me today is the material I am
working with. It supplies the shock which suggests the form just as cracks
in the wall suggested shapes to Leonardo." * One must therefore
learn to read and interpret Joan Miro almost as if one were studying the symbolic
meanings of hieroglyphics. Of all the giants of modern art, Joan Miro is surely
the great delineator of our collective unconscious. |
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During his career, Joan Miro created many original lithographs
and etchings. Some were printed in small, hand-signed editions while others
were created in large editions ranging from one to two thousand five hundred impressions,
mostly for periodicals such as Verve and Derriere le Mirror and as original
posters for gallery exhibitions and other events. |
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The Dog Barking at the Moon Awakens the Cock, The Crowing
of the Cock Pecks at the Head of the Catalan Farmer Resting on the Table
beside the Flask of Wine was commissioned by the Paris publisher, Verve,
for their 1952 double number volume. (A small, signed edition of fifty impressions
were also published at this date.) Both sides of the sturdy, wove paper
were used for printing and therefore two other original lithographs appear
on the verso of this original colour lithograph. Both are studies related
to the primary lithograph and one contains the title in French. The other
is an abstract, color composition. |
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As The Dog Barking at the Moon is a large, double
page lithograph and contains the vertical fold and slight pin prick holes
for binding. Miro has signed the lithograph within the stone to the lower
right. This original art has been matted on both sides in order to view
the group of lithographs. |
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With its wonderful use of color and line The Dog Barking
at the Moon has long been hailed as one of the artist's greatest and
most imaginative works of original art. It has now rightly assumed its place
as one of the most famous prints of the twentieth century. |
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Verve: From 1937 to 1960 Verve was
a leader for promoting modern movements in art. Printed and published in
Paris, this periodical contained major articles on and by leading contemporary
artists. More importantly, each issue contained at least one original print
created specifically for the publication. |
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Some of the most sought after original lithographs of the
twentieth century appeared in 1952 double number (#27 & 28) of Verve.
These included Marc Chagall's complete Visions de Paris set, Andre Masson's,
The Torrent, Henri Matisse's, The Sadness of the King,
Leger's, The Outing, Miro's, The Dog Barking at the Moon and original
lithographs in both colors and black and white by Georges Braque, Henri
Laurens, Alberto Giacometti, Francisco Bores and Marcel Gromaire. Original works of art printed by Verve never appeared
in pencil signed and limited editions, but most were published in numbers
of two thousand five hundred or less. |
| Raisonne: |
Fernand Mourlot, Joan Miro lithographe, Paris, Vol.
1, 1972. Catalogue #189. |
| Reference: |
* H. J. Wechsler, Great Prints & Printmakers, New York,
Leon Amiel, 1977, p. 225. |
| Size: |
13 7/8 X 21 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Condition: |
Printed upon thick, wove paper and with full margins as published
in Paris for Verve in 1952. Containing the vertical fold and very
faint binding holes along the fold, as usual. A fine, full color impression
and in excellent condition throughout. The Dog Barking at the Moon Awakens
the Cock, The Crowing of the Cock Pecks at the Head of the Catalan Farmer
Resting on the Table beside the Flask of Wine represents a most famous,
original example of the art of Joan Miro. |
| Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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