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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
Makemono
lithograph in colours, 1950-55, on natural Chanton silk, signed in red oil paint, numbered 44/50, published by Maeght, Paris, with wooden batons and rolled as a scroll (as issued), in the original wooden box, with a carved and coloured lid, lock and key, and a painted and lacquered design on the inner lid, the colours very bright and fresh
Image & Sheet 415 x 9850 mm. (approx.)
Box 580 x 920 x 145 mm.
Literature
Paul Wember, Joan Miro - The Graphic Work, exh. cat., Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, 1957, no. 183 (another impression illustrated).
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Makemono is the largest print by Joan Miró, measuring an astounding ten meters. A lithographic masterpiece inspired by Asian calligraphic scrolls, it elegantly merges Chinese and Japanese traditions with European surrealism, a unique blend of East and West. In this format Mirós idiosyncratic motifs of birds, eyes and the moon - a visual language of bold black strokes against a palette of blue, green, red and yellow - become an idiosyncratic narrative which can be followed along the length of the scroll.

The silk fabric is rolled with two wooden batons, and housed in the original hand-carved, painted and varnished box, designed by Miró himself.

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