Artwork in focus
Joan Miró
Recent Paintings exhibition-catalogue lithograph, 1953
Figures in black and white
White figure-like shapes emerge from a dense black field, surrounded by scattered dots and fine linear marks. A star-like form at the lower left and an elongated shape along the bottom carry the eye beyond the central image.
- Artist
- Joan Miró (1893–1983)
- Full title
- Catalogue de l’exposition ‘Recent paintings 1953’ à l’occasion du 60e anniversaire de l’artiste
- Date
- 1953
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 31 × 24 cm; listed as 12⅜ × 9½ in
- Edition
- 36/100
- Literature
- Maeght 140
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Looking at the lithograph
The composition builds its rhythm through contrasts: broad black passages and open white shapes, soft-edged textures and precise lines, a central upright figure and smaller forms around its edges. Rounded white spots break up the dark lower field, while the pale paper frames the image.
The catalogue title refers to an exhibition of recent paintings marking the artist’s sixtieth birthday. Here, the limited black-and-white palette draws attention to the interaction of shape, texture and empty space.
Explore another side of Miró’s printmaking in Personatges solars (1974), or compare the black gestures and vivid color of For “Les Essencies de la Terra” 2 (1968).