Joan Miró
JOAN MIRÓ
(Spanish, 1893 – 1983)
Les trois soeurs, 1938
Etching and dry point
Plate size: 10- 1/2 by 7- 3/4 in. (26.67 by 19.69 cm)
Sheet size: 7- 5/8 by 12- 7/8 in. (19.37 by 32.70 cm)
With full margins
One of 30 signed and numbered examples.
Co-published by Pierre Loeb, Paris and Pierre Matisse, Paris/New York.
Printer: Lacourière, Paris
Ref: Dupin 25
In the latter 1930’s Joan Miró arranged with a fellow artist and master etcher/engraver, Marcoussis, to teach him the fine points of the art of etching. The result of this apprenticeship was Miró mastering that art on a very high level. In 1938, at the prestigious Atelier Lacourière, he produced a series of black and white etchings (and one series rendered in black and red as well), which constitute one of the most famous groups of etchings ever produced by any Surrealist artist.
Because of the quality and importance of this series of etchings by Miró, two illustrious dealers of the period, Pierre Loeb in Paris, and Pierre Matisse in New York, formed a partnership to publish the group. Accordingly, these works met with great success on both sides of the Atlantic and figure prominently in almost every important print collection in the world today. Examples are always sought after, having been published in editions of only thirty each.