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Joan Miró — Les magdaléniens (The Magdalenians): three impressions
Joan Miró

Les magdaléniens (The Magdalenians): three impressions

Three etchings by Joan Miró showcase his signature fusion of surrealist imagination and primal symbolism, referencing the ancient Magdalenian people of prehistoric Europe. Two of the prints feature hand-applied crayon coloring—one further enriched with gouache—lending an intimate, tactile quality to Miró's biomorphic figures and hieroglyphic-like marks. The third impression employs aquatint printed in colors, demonstrating Miró's masterful exploration of printmaking techniques to evoke a mythic, dreamlike world rooted in humanity's earliest visual language.

Medium
Three etchings including two etchings with hand-coloring in crayons (one also with gouache), and one with aquatint printed in colors, on wove 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, Les magdaléniens (The Magdalenians): three impressions

Three etchings by Joan Miró showcase his signature fusion of surrealist imagination and primal symbolism, referencing the ancient Magdalenian people of prehistoric Europe. Two of the prints feature hand-applied crayon coloring—one further enriched with gouache—lending an intimate, tactile quality to Miró's biomorphic figures and hieroglyphic-like marks. The third impression employs aquatint printed in colors, demonstrating Miró's masterful exploration of printmaking techniques to evoke a mythic, dreamlike world rooted in humanity's earliest visual language.

Medium
Three etchings including two etchings with hand-coloring in crayons (one also with gouache), and one with aquatint printed in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Abstract Art, 20th Century, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Etching, Hand-Colored Work, Printmaking, Modernist Master, Spanish Artist, Whimsical Mood, Vibrant Colors

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Collected by

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