Joan MIRO - Original lithograph - Lézard aux plumes d’or

Joan Miró : Spanish painter and sculptor born in Barcelona in 1893, He studies at Barcelona Fine Arts School from 1907 and entirely dedicated himself to painting since 1912. The artist asserts himself throw different mediums, painting, collage, lithography, etching, ceramic, sculpture on marble and bronze... Miró discovers cubism and fauvism in Paris where he lives in 1920 and meets up with Pablo Picasso, André Masson and dadaïst members, before he become a member of surrealism. He completes his series of "Constellations" (1940-1941) at Palma de Mallorca where he stays in 1956. In 1942, he comes back to Barcelona then to United States five years later and begins monumental painting ("Composition with ropes", 1950, Eindhoven). From years 1960, his paintings show a new space research, often monochrom ("Blue I, II, III", 1961). His latest works are monumental statues for Chicago (1981), Houston and Barcelona (1982). The artist died in Palma de Mallorca in 1983.

Museo Patio Herreriano (Spain)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Nice (MAMAC) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Artium (Spain)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) (Spain)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Fundació Vila Casas (Spain)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Canton Museum of Art (The USA)
olorVisual (Spain)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery (Ireland)
Musée de Pully (Switzerland)
Collection Gelonch Viladegut