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Joan Miró — Giboulées (Hail Storm): two impressions
Joan Miró

Giboulées (Hail Storm): two impressions

Rendered in delicate gray tones with bursts of color, these two soft-ground etchings by Joan Miró capture the spontaneous, dreamlike energy characteristic of his iconic Surrealist vision. The layered impressions reveal Miró's playful interplay between line and form, with the aquatint lending rich atmospheric depth to one sheet while the other maintains a spare, contemplative quietude. Together, the pair exemplifies Miró's masterful printmaking language, blending biomorphic abstraction with a childlike sense of wonder on the luminous surface of Rives BFK paper.

Medium
Two soft-ground etchings in gray, one with aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

April 18, 2017

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Joan Miró, Giboulées (Hail Storm): two impressions

Rendered in delicate gray tones with bursts of color, these two soft-ground etchings by Joan Miró capture the spontaneous, dreamlike energy characteristic of his iconic Surrealist vision. The layered impressions reveal Miró's playful interplay between line and form, with the aquatint lending rich atmospheric depth to one sheet while the other maintains a spare, contemplative quietude. Together, the pair exemplifies Miró's masterful printmaking language, blending biomorphic abstraction with a childlike sense of wonder on the luminous surface of Rives BFK paper.

Medium
Two soft-ground etchings in gray, one with aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Abstract Art, 20th Century, Male Artist, Etching, Printmaking, Gray Palette, Spanish Artist, Modern Master, Aquatint

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Collected by

Hamilton Selway Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Alex Capecelatro, Carolyn Lynx