The Ring of Dawn Suite (Suite la bague d'aurore)

Joan MiróWW-1957-M008393

1957·Portfolio of twenty-four aquatints (including wrapper and variant print) (five with etching, two with engraving, two with drypoint, and one with pastel additions) and one etching·composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (orientation varies, each approx): 11 3/16 × 14 15/16" (28.4 × 38 cm) or 14 15/16 × 11 3/16" (38 × 28.4 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1957
Medium: Portfolio of twenty-four aquatints (including wrapper and variant print) (five with etching, two with engraving, two with drypoint, and one with pastel additions) and one etching
Dimensions: composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (orientation varies, each approx): 11 3/16 × 14 15/16" (28.4 × 38 cm) or 14 15/16 × 11 3/16" (38 × 28.4 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Joan Miró

Artist

Joan Miró

Painting

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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